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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 Evie describe as the parents' hobby?

2. What does Low tell the other teenagers he heard up at the great house when they went for food?

3. What news do Alycia's parents get that upsets them in Chapter 3?

4. Who figures out who Eve's mother is?

5. Where are James and his friends going after they leave the delta?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the parents in panic mode in Chapter 3?

2. Why does Evie decide to get the teenagers' phones back?

3. What does James ask Evie's group of teenagers about that confuses them, and Evie is the only one to admit this?

4. What do the parents spend most of their time doing in Part I?

5. Why does Evie not participate in driving the tick-ridden deer from the yard?

6. Why does Shel handcuff himself to the treehouse?

7. Why is Evie so alarmed to see what Kay does to Amy in Chapter 3?

8. Why are Jack and Shel capturing animals in Chapter 3?

9. Why is David feeling so guilty about sabotaging the yacht in Chapter 3?

10. Why do the parents refuse to leave when the teenagers ask them to, in the aftermath of the storm?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Alycia's deal with her father - that he will not tell her mother about Alycia's dalliances with an older man if she will not tell her mother about the father's infidelity - tell the reader about the moral nature of these characters? Which other parents and children seem to make choices that are morally questionable? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What happens to Sukey's mother about halfway through the novel, and why does it seem to serve as a type of turning point in the action of the novel and in the lives of the assembled teenagers? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What does Terry's overture to the soldiers and the Governor reveal about the teenagers' skills, independence, and/or frame of reference? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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