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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 Joe discover inside Peach's home?

2. What does Joe leave alongside Benji's remains?

3. What is the purpose of the cage?

4. Joe describes Beck's friend Lynn as being what?

5. Joe notices that Beck's behavior changes when she talks to which person?

Short Essay Questions

1. What special gift does Beck give Joe? Why?

2. What happened while Joe was being punished by Mr. Mooney?

3. What information does Joe learn while at Beck's fiction reading?

4. What does Joe do to Benji?

5. Who is Candace and what does the reader know about her?

6. Who is Spencer Hewitt? What is significant about him?

7. How does Joe meet Beck? What does Joe think about her?

8. On what surprising topic does Joe quiz Benji? What are the results?

9. How does the trip to IKEA help Joe's relationship with Beck?

10. Why does Beck become angry in the subway station?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what extent is Joe a sympathetic character? Explain the “likeability” of Joe’s character, using examples from the text to support your argument.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the characters of Candace, Karen Minty, and Amy Adam. What does his interactions with each tell us about Joe?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining the significance of the title of the novel. What does titling the novel “You” say about Joe? How does the title reflect the novel’s themes?

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