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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 does Evie finally find Jack as the storm preparations are happening?

2. Who built the house Evie's family and the others rent for the summer?

3. What do Jack and Shel bring into the house in Chapter 3 that alarms Eve?

4. Who is on the small raft that gets snagged in a clump of reeds in the cove of the lake?

5. Where do the teenagers decamp from the house to in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who do the teenagers meet when they take off for the island for a few days?

2. How does the parents' behavior grow worse in the aftermath of the storm?

3. What do the parents spend most of their time doing in Part I?

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

5. What is the provenance of the summer house, and how does Evie refer to the house?

6. What was a liability in the parent game?

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

8. What does James ask Evie's group of teenagers about that confuses them, and Evie is the only one to admit this?

9. Why do the teenagers run away with Burl?

10. What is the parent game and why is it important to the teenagers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do you think it means that the parents show up in response to Sukey's call about the soldiers holding the group hostage at the farm? How do the teenagers feel about the parents' arrival to "rescue" them? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

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.

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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