View a FREE sample

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 do while alone in Dr. Nicky's office?

2. What does Joe leave behind in Peach's house?

3. What does Peach fear following the break-in at her apartment?

4. Dr. Nicky breaks the patient-therapist boundary when he admits what?

5. After a long conversation with Joe, Beck tells Peach what about Joe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Joe offer Beck a job at the bookshop? Who is an obstacle to her working there? Why?

2. How does Dr. Nicky help Joe?

3. What conflicting signals does Beck send Joe during their "everythingship"?

4. Who is the Captain? Who does Joe initially fear he is? How does the learn the Captain's true identity?

5. What are the effects of Beck and Joe working together?

6. How does Joe end up alone in Dr. Nicky's office? What does Joe do while alone?

7. Why does Joe fire Curtis from the bookshop?

8. Why does Joe attend the Charles Dickens Festival? What does he do there?

9. What do Beck and Peach learn while in Little Compton? What happens to Peach?

10. Who is Ethan? What plan do Joe and Beck devise for him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay exploring how Joe’s relationship with Beck changes over the course of the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Joe finds himself involved in several conflicts over the course of the novel. Choose one instance of internal conflict and one instance of external conflict, and explain how these conflicts have an impact on the story and the characters involved.

Essay Topic 3

Does Joe experience any change over the course of the novel? In what ways does he change and in what ways does he remain the same?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 738 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample