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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 Jack and Shel bring into the house in Chapter 3 that alarms Eve?
2. What are Jack and Shel doing when Evie finds them in Chapter 3?
3. When are the parents the most receptive to requests from the teenagers?
4. What are the parents doing when the teenagers get back from the delta?
5. What is the system of accounting that the teenagers come up with?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the "magic hour" and how do the teenagers use it?
2. Why do the teenagers run away with Burl?
3. Why does Evie decide to get the teenagers' phones back?
4. What was a liability in the parent game?
5. How does Evie feel about her younger brother Jack?
6. Why are Jack and Shel capturing animals in Chapter 3?
7. What does Evie wrestle with telling Jack in Part I?
8. Why is Evie surprised one of the mothers at the house gave Jack a Bible?
9. What does James ask Evie's group of teenagers about that confuses them, and Evie is the only one to admit this?
10. Why are the parents in panic mode in Chapter 3?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What do you think Millet is trying to communicate to the reader about both individual and personal responsibility through the actions of both the parents and the teenagers? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
Which specific details and plot events of Millet's are the most effective in communicating the nature of the relationship between the parents and the teenagers throughout the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
Why do you think Millet chooses to leave the question of where the parents go in the very end of the novel - and why they leave - very ambiguous? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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