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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. Where does Ronnie find her friend in Chapter 10?

2. Marcus invites Ronnie where before leaving in Chapter 8?

3. What is Ronnie's father's name?

4. What is the main character of a literary narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve?

5. What is the name of the girl who runs into Ronnie on the beach in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What main characters are established in the Prologue? What is the protagonist preparing to do?

2. What conversation do Ronnie and Blaze have in Chapter 12? How does Ronnie feel about it?

3. How does the relationship between Will and Ronnie progress in Chapter 13? Where does he take her on their day together?

4. What does Steve do as he awaits the arrival of his children in Chapter 2? How does he feel about seeing them?

5. Where is Ronnie going to stay with her father in Chapter 1? How is Ronnie's relationship with her father described?

6. What confrontation does Ronnie have with Will in Chapter 13? What is Will's response?

7. What does Steve contemplate as he waits for Ronnie in Chapter 9?

8. What actions does Marcus take when Blaze and Ronnie are eating at a diner in Chapter 8?

9. What happens when a police officer comes to take Ronnie home in Chapter 6?

10. How does Steve feel about his daughter? What efforts does he make in order to ensure her happiness in the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define and identify conflict in narrative literature and the novel. What is internal conflict and how does it differ from external conflict? What does Ronnie struggle with internally in the novel? How does this conflict drive her actions in Chapter 5?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Will's character development in the novel. What does the reader learn about Will's friendship and obligation to Scott in Chapter 20? What does Ronnie, and by extension, the reader, learn in this chapter which illuminates the rationale behind Will's actions? What does Will think of Ronnie in comparison with his ex-girlfriend?

Essay Topic 3

Define and identify irony in the novel. Why is it ironic that Ronnie and Will come to Blaze's rescue in Chapter 28? What are the different forms of irony in literature? How are each implemented in the novel?

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