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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 kind of skull does Evie and her friends find in Chapter 1?

2. Which animal startles Eve when it lands on her in Chapter 4?

3. What does Evie's mother teach?

4. How does Evie describe Val?

5. Why do some of the teenagers go back to the great house in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why is Evie so alarmed to see what Kay does to Amy in Chapter 3?

10. Why do the parents refuse to leave when the teenagers ask them to, in the aftermath of the storm?

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

How do the teenagers respond to the farm owner's rules, and what do you think Millet intends those rules to symbolize? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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