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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 does Eve decide to do while the parents are distracted in Chapter 3?
2. What kinds of animals do the teenagers routinely chase from the lawn?
3. Who goes missing right before the teenagers leave in Chapter 4?
4. Which of the teenagers actually leaves the house for weeks at a time?
5. Who are the twins in the great house?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do the teenagers and parents know Alycia has survived the storm on the yacht?
2. Why does Shel handcuff himself to the treehouse?
3. Why do the parents refuse to leave when the teenagers ask them to, in the aftermath of the storm?
4. Why are Jack and Shel capturing animals in Chapter 3?
5. Why do the teenagers run away with Burl?
6. What does Evie wrestle with telling Jack in Part I?
7. What was a liability in the parent game?
8. Why do Evie and some of the other teenagers go swimming in the storm water at the parents' request?
9. Why does Evie not participate in driving the tick-ridden deer from the yard?
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 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
How would you characterize Millet's description of the summer house in the first half of the novel? Why do you think she mentions it was built by robber barons in the nineteenth century, and what is the significance of this detail, as well as other details about its luxurious excess? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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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