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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 Evie and the other teenagers put into a hat in Chapter 1?
2. What does Eve do because she is afraid of Jack being around all the water after the storm?
3. What is one of the things the teenagers respect in Chapter 1?
4. Who does Rafe call a homophobic idiot?
5. What does Evie do with Amy after Amy's injury?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Burl think is particularly dangerous that they all see around the great house in the days after the storm?
2. Who do the teenagers meet when they take off for the island for a few days?
3. How do the teenagers and parents know Alycia has survived the storm on the yacht?
4. What is the provenance of the summer house, and how does Evie refer to the house?
5. What is the parent game and why is it important to the teenagers?
6. Why are Jack and Shel capturing animals in Chapter 3?
7. What do the parents spend most of their time doing in Part I?
8. Why is Evie surprised one of the mothers at the house gave Jack a Bible?
9. What impresses, grudgingly, Evie about Alycia in Part I?
10. Why is Evie so alarmed to see what Kay does to Amy in Chapter 3?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Why does David decide to sabotage the yacht's navigational device, and what plot development makes this news much more serious? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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