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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 do the girls do after the electricity comes back on?

2. What theory do Emma and Sutton come up with at the same time?

3. What happens when Emma goes to the bathroom?

4. What does the voice say to Emma when she is held fast in the kitchen?

5. What is Garrett's response about Emma's statement in question 125?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Emma gives Laurel the note Emma found in Emma's pocket?

2. How does Emma have a threatening encounter?

3. How does Nisha try to humiliate Sutton?

4. How does Ethan and Emma come to be on a deserted, dirt road?

5. What does Emma realize about Sutton and why?

6. Describe the video Emma finds when Charlotte, Madeline and Laurel are choking Sutton.

7. What does Becky say to Emma in a dream and what happens when Emma wakes from the dream?

8. Who arrives to chat with Garrett and Emma and what do Emma and Sutton both think about the visitor?

9. Why does Emma invite Madeline to the spa and what do the two talk about?

10. What does Emma think about in class concerning the photo of Laurel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Emma holds to the hope that she and Sutton will have a wonderful reunion and that they'll become close. Emma has felt an emptiness because of the lack of personal long-term connections in her life. She has put a great deal of hope into the idea that Sutton will fill that gap.

1. Discuss Sutton and her habits and personality as to how you think a reunion between Sutton and Emma would be. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

2. Discuss what you know of Emma's life and why she might feel as she does in the above statement. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

3. From what is seen of Emma's life before she goes to Tucson discuss what some of the problems are with the foster care system and how you think being in foster care may have affected Emma. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss The Lying Game based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if The Lying Game is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the criteria for a successful novel should be different if it is written for adults versus young adults? Why or why not? Would most adults consider The Lying Game a successful novel? What about young teens?

Essay Topic 3

Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:

1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Sara Shepard.

2. What in Shepard's background may have helped him in writing The Lying Game? What may have influenced the way he depicts various characters and scenes?

3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.

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