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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. Where do Evie and Jack live when they are not renting the great house?
2. What does Eve hear about the lake after the storm that upsets her and makes her afraid of the water?
3. What was Terry's real name, according to Evie?
4. Who is on the small raft that gets snagged in a clump of reeds in the cove of the lake?
5. Where are James and his friends going after they leave the delta?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the parents' behavior grow worse in the aftermath of the storm?
2. Why do Evie and some of the other teenagers go swimming in the storm water at the parents' request?
3. Why are the parents in panic mode in Chapter 3?
4. What impresses, grudgingly, Evie about Alycia in Part I?
5. What was a liability in the parent game?
6. What do the parents spend most of their time doing in Part I?
7. What is the "magic hour" and how do the teenagers use it?
8. What does Evie wrestle with telling Jack in Part I?
9. What does Burl think is particularly dangerous that they all see around the great house in the days after the storm?
10. Why does Evie decide to get the teenagers' phones back?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Millet treat the theme of sex from a coming-of-age point of view throughout the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
Why do you think Millet chose to select one narrator for this entire novel, given the large cast of characters in the book? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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