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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Will do when he finds Marcus and his friends in the end of Chapter 28?
(a) Beats them up.
(b) Gives them money.
(c) Shoots them.
(d) Robs them.

2. Will's father owns what establishment in the town?
(a) Scholler Rugs.
(b) Blakelee Brakes.
(c) Michaels' Bakery.
(d) Williams & Brothers Bank.

3. Who thinks about a party he plans to throw that night in a house he has broken into in Chapter 22?
(a) James.
(b) Will.
(c) Mike.
(d) Marcus.

4. Ronnie is standing on the deck near what when Will finds her in Chapter 26?
(a) Tom's yacht.
(b) The cemetery.
(c) The lighthouse.
(d) The pool.

5. Who does Ronnie ask to take her home after the wedding in Chapter 26?
(a) Tom.
(b) Will.
(c) Scott.
(d) Steve.

6. What do Ronnie and Will find Jonah doing in the work shed in Chapter 32?
(a) Trying to finish the sculpture.
(b) Building an airplane.
(c) Trying to finish the window.
(d) Writing to his father.

7. Who saved Will and his mother in a car accident many years earlier in the novel?
(a) Scott.
(b) Steve.
(c) Marcus.
(d) Pastor Harris.

8. Who stops by the next day to marvel at the work the kids have done in Chapter 32?
(a) Mr. Marshall.
(b) Kim.
(c) Steve.
(d) Pastor Harris.

9. Ronnie, Jonah, Will, and Steve are talking when Steve has a coughing fit that causes what, in Chapter 29?
(a) Him to cough up blood.
(b) Him to have a heart attack.
(c) Him to vomit.
(d) Him to run from the room.

10. What refers to the status of the character as it unfolds throughout the story?
(a) Catalyst.
(b) Deus ex machina.
(c) Character arc.
(d) Protagonist.

11. What does Will's father show Ronnie when she stops by Will's house in Chapter 19?
(a) A remote-control plane.
(b) His coin collection.
(c) His kite collection.
(d) His yacht.

12. What refers to the treatment of cancer with an antineoplastic drug or with a combination of such drugs into a standardized treatment regimen?
(a) Immunosuppression.
(b) Acupuncture.
(c) Radiation therapy.
(d) Chemotherapy.

13. What draws a big crowd, causing Ronnie to be somewhat annoyed at having to share the moment in Chapter 29?
(a) The otters are born.
(b) The seals swim away.
(c) The gulls hatch.
(d) The turtle eggs hatch.

14. In Chapter 33, Ronnie gets her father to admit to her that he played the piano for what reason?
(a) To escape his family.
(b) To escape his marriage.
(c) To keep his pain at bay.
(d) To remind him of Kim.

15. Will insists on going to his house to do what in Chapter 18?
(a) Talk to his mother.
(b) Talk to his father.
(c) See his brother.
(d) Change clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wins the game that Ronnie's family plays with Will in Chapter 20?

2. Who does Will get into a fight with in Chapter 26?

3. Who insists on staying with Ronnie and Jonah, sleeping on the couch, in Chapter 31?

4. What refers to a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions?

5. In Chapter 18, Scott complains to Will that he is spending more time with Ronnie than doing what?

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