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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 the visitor that is waiting for Sia when she returns home at the end of Chapter 22?

2. What kind of car does Sia’s father drive when he takes her to visit her mother in Chapter 21?

3. Sia says in the beginning of Chapter 23 that over how many people have died due to the earthquake in San Francisco?

4. What does Amber give to Sia when they get into Amber’s car in Chapter 40?

5. Stacy perceives that Amber’s note along with her donation is what in Chapter 36?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Alyz send Sia and Kyle as she talks to her friends in Chapter 32? What do they do?

2. What is the focus of Sia’s history class in Chapter 23? Why is Kyle’s name brought up in the class?

3. How is the arrival of Sia and Kyle at the Academy Awards described in Chapter 29?

4. Why does Stacy come to Sia’s house in Chapter 35? What information does she relate to Sia?

5. What exchange takes place between Sia and Amber in the beginning of Chapter 26?

6. What note do Sia and Stacy find amongst the donations in Chapter 36? What does the note say?

7. How much has been collected in donations through Kyle’s fundraiser in Chapter 37? How much cash is missing?

8. How does Sia’s mother appear when Sia and her father first see her at the rehab clinic in Chapter 21? What does Sia’s mother say of her time there?

9. Whom does Alyz send Kyle to speak to for donations at the party in Chapter 31? Whom does she take Sia to meet at this time?

10. Where do Sia and Kyle go after the Academy Awards in Chapter 30? How does Sia respond to this setting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the narrative point of view of Sia. Is the novel related from a first, second, or third person perspective? Is the narrator involved in the action of the story? How would the novel differ if it were related from a different perspective?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Sia’s “first impressions” of her friends Amber and Stacy in Chapters 9 and 10. How does Sia characterize their manner of speaking? Do you think that Amber and Stacy are multi-dimensional characters? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of forgiveness in Sia. How does Sia learn in the course of the novel to forgive both others and herself? How does this theme apply to the other main characters in the story?

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