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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. In what place does Shayla finish her first 400?

2. What color are the towels in the Willows family bathroom?

3. How long is the break at Shayla’s school?

4. Under what kind of tree do the United Nations sit for break?

5. To whom does Shayla compare Yolanda?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Shayla describe Mr. Levy as the book begins?

2. What reason does Coach West cite for arranging the preseason meet?

3. How are “‘old school’ parties” defined in the novel (141-42)?

4. When Alex is Commanded at lunch, what does he do?

5. Why does Shayla note the Monday after Halloween got off to a bad start for her?

6. What advice does Hana offer Shayla about Jace?

7. What suspicion does Shayla have of Isabella lending her her top?

8. Why is Shayla angrier at Julia than at Stacy for the Command given Tyler?

9. Why does Shayla’s mother agree to host the sleepover despite the girls’ behavior?

10. For what reason had Isabella absented herself from school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What overall attitude toward violence does the novel display, and how does it show that attitude?

Essay Topic 2

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

Essay Topic 3

To what extent can the protagonist be read as a stand-in for the author? What in the text and its contexts suggests as much, and how does it do so?

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