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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. Which of the teenagers goes up on the roof to try to repair the weatherproofing there?
2. Which teenage boy do some of Evie's friends seem to like in Chapter 2?
3. Which animal startles Eve when it lands on her in Chapter 4?
4. Who comes to the delta in Chapter 2 who has been missing from the great house?
5. Whose house do the teenagers decide to eventually strike out for?
Short Essay Questions
1. What impresses, grudgingly, Evie about Alycia in Part I?
2. Why do the teenagers run away with Burl?
3. How do the teenagers and parents know Alycia has survived the storm on the yacht?
4. How does the parents' behavior grow worse in the aftermath of the storm?
5. What is the provenance of the summer house, and how does Evie refer to the house?
6. Why are the parents in panic mode in Chapter 3?
7. What is the parent game and why is it important to the teenagers?
8. How does Evie feel about her younger brother Jack?
9. What does Burl think is particularly dangerous that they all see around the great house in the days after the storm?
10. Who do the teenagers meet when they take off for the island for a few days?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What do the teenagers think of the yacht crowd that they meet just before the storm, and why are so many of the teenagers alternatively enthralled and repulsed by the yacht crowd? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
How does Evie feel, at first, about Jack's and Shel's forgiveness of Red? What does the boys' treatment of Red seem to represent for Evie and for the rest of the teenagers? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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