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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lizabeth intend to do with the dog once he returns home?
(a) Keep him on a leash.
(b) Keep him in the house at all times.
(c) Send him to obedience school.
(d) Give him away.

2. From what condition did Matt's father suffer?
(a) Cocaine addiction.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Alcoholism.
(d) Black lung disease.

3. What is Matt's nickname for Lizabeth?
(a) Sweetheart.
(b) Bethie.
(c) Lizzy.
(d) Sugar.

4. What happened to Matt's mother?
(a) She died when he was 7.
(b) She became a drug addict.
(c) She left the family when he was 7.
(d) She was admitted to a mental institution when he was 7.

5. Why does Lizabeth say Matt enjoys violence?
(a) He likes hockey.
(b) He likes boxing and wrestling.
(c) He keeps a cardboard box full of violent material.
(d) All of the answers are correct.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lizabeth tells Matt that something is wrong with the bed. What is it?

2. What items does Matt bring from his house to Lizabeth's?

3. What does Matt come home with after leaving for a ride on the motorcycle with Billy?

4. Why has the glass company come to Lizabeth's house?

5. Lizabeth and the intruder have a mutual acquaintance. Who is this person?

Short Essay Questions

1. After arguing the night before, Lizabeth finds herself alone in the morning and much of the rest of the day. What does Matt say that expresses the confusion he is feeling about their relationship when they finally do meet up?

2. Lizabeth seems to have many preconceived notions about what a perfect father should be. In her mind, Matt falls short in several of these categories. What does she say in Chapter 7 that expresses these notions and where Matt falls short?

3. What does Matt do to distract Jason and Billy from their worries in Chapter 9?

4. Choose one of the several family relationships described in the novel and outline its importance to the story.

5. On the way home from Richard Hastings' house, what does Lizabeth tell Matt that surprises him, and how does she go about telling him?

6. Matt's strained relationship with his father is a source of aggravation for him. Though he doesn't tell Lizabeth the entire story, what happens in Chapter 7 to further bolster that explanation?

7. There is an obvious use of irony in Chapter 9 when Richard Hastings makes a particular statement. What is that statement, and why is it ironic?

8. The reader learns more about Matt's childhood in Chapter 9 than throughout the rest of the book. Was his childhood happy? What happened to his mother? Describe his childhood relationship with his father.

9. As Lizabeth spends most of the barbecue trying to identify the flasher, one man in particular catches her eye. What does she do to try to find out if he is the flasher, and what is the result?

10. In fairly typical romance-novel fashion, the story wraps up with Matt and Lizabeth marrying and living happily ever after. Given the short time they've known each other and the tumultuous relationship they have had up to that point, how believable do you find the story? If you find it quite believable, why? What is it about the genre that makes it so popular, and how does that apply to this book?

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