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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 Carmen?
2. What career does Colin plan to pursue?
3. Who threatens to beat up Brittany in the gym locker?
4. In which fictional town is "Perfect Chemistry" set?
5. Who does Alex ask for help in taking the drunk Brittany home?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Alex's role in the gang, the Latino Bloods?
2. Why is Alex's bet with his friends an especially challenging one?
3. What does Brittany's mother's treatment of Alex indicate about how different his life is from Brittany's?
4. Where does Brittany spend the night when she is drunk and why do she and Alex fight the next morning?
5. What is the initial conflict in the story of Alex and Brittany?
6. What does Brittany do after Colin pushes her to have sex on the beach?
7. Who is the teacher who shows some interest interest in Alex and his future?
8. How does Alex help take care of his widowed mother and two younger brothers?
9. Why does the sight of his brother near the soccer field anger Alex?
10. Why does Alex need Isabel's help regarding Brittany at the beach?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the major settings for the novel. Why does Elkeles use the settings she does? What is the time period of the story? How important is the time period to the attitudes and issues of the characters?
Essay Topic 2
Substance abuse seems to be an unnamed character in the book. How pervasive is the abuse? Why does it have such a prevalent place in the characters' lives? How does it affect the abusers? How does it affect those impacted by the abusers? Explain how an inanimate object or characteristic can be a character.
Essay Topic 3
What is the tragic story of "Romeo and Juliet"? How are Alex and Brittany like these two star-crossed lovers? In what ways are they different?
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