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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Poppy dating when she travels to Tuscany?

2. What Pacific island does Poppy note R+R sent her?

3. What attraction does Dani recommend?

4. From which amusement park does Poppy report her parents have a magnet?

5. To what does Poppy shorten Guillermo’s name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Alex note wanting from life?

2. What challenges does Poppy note Alex finds to assignations in the shower?

3. What does Poppy learn a “beginner” rafting trip entails?

4. How does Poppy describe the story of Alex’s she reads in New Orleans?

5. How does Poppy address Alex’s back spasm?

6. How does Alex report his breakup with Sarah while he is with Poppy on Sanibel Island?

7. Poppy notes wishing to be in Linfield whenever she is sick; why does she note as much?

8. Under what circumstances does Poppy report meeting Guillermo?

9. What opinion does Alex reportedly hold of Julian?

10. What reason does Alex give for suggesting Poppy not wash her hair when she is ill?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the symbolism of the protagonist’s love-interest’s name in People We Meet On Vacation.

Essay Topic 2

Given her admissions of lying and theft, how reliable a narrator is Poppy? What in People We Meet On Vacation. demonstrates that reliability, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Sources attest to the presence of People We Meet on Vacation on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the romance? How does it do so?

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