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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. What does Mclean find at the beach house that surprises her?

2. What is Mclean's mother doing when Mclean sees her on TV?

3. What does Mclean's father tell her when she comes home from school one day?

4. Whom does Gus begin to date?

5. What does Mclean learn about the prep cook at the restaurant?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Mcean's relationships with her parents and David making her feel more content now?

2. What do her friends confront Mclean about that makes her run from the restaurant where she had been helping with the model?

3. What makes Mclean so upset that she takes off from the beach house in her old car?

4. How does Mclean learn about her father's new job in Hawaii and how does she feel about going there?

5. What does Lindsay do with Mclean's father at the restaurant that flusters Opal and starts to make Mclean feel like she's on shaky ground?

6. What are Mclean's evolving thoughts about what home really is as she and her parents talk about the future?

7. What does Mclean learn about why her mother has met with an attorney?

8. What is different about this new place for Mclean and her father that typically doesn't happen?

9. What has happened to David as a result of Mclean's calling him to come to the Poseidon the night she was so upset?

10. How does Mclean's mother respond when Mclean confronts her on the phone about the choices her mother has made that have impacted their lives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the significance of the book's title. What does the author mean by calling it simply WHAT HAPPENED TO GOODBYE? What is she trying to emphasize with this emphatic style? Suggest three alternate titles for this book with supporting rationale for each.

Essay Topic 2

Create a brief character study of Mclean's mother. What did she look like? What were her positive personality traits? What were her dreams and fears? What was most valuable to her in her world?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the overall setting for the story. Why does the author use the setting she does? What is the time period of the story? How important is the time period to the attitudes and issues of the characters?

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