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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 does Evie view the parents as in Chapter 1?

3. What does Kay do to Amy in Chapter 3?

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

5. What does David do to the yacht that he later feels guilty about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Evie and some of the other teenagers go swimming in the storm water at the parents' request?

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

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

4. Why is Evie surprised one of the mothers at the house gave Jack a Bible?

5. Why do the teenagers run away with Burl?

6. What does Burl think is particularly dangerous that they all see around the great house in the days after the storm?

7. What does Evie wrestle with telling Jack in Part I?

8. What was a liability in the parent game?

9. What impresses, grudgingly, Evie about Alycia in Part I?

10. How does Evie feel about her younger brother Jack?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the purpose of "The Game" in which all the teenagers try as hard as possible not to reveal the identity of their parents? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support 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

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.

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