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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 date is presented in the beginning of “Lollipop Girl”?

2. Who heads back from Ravenwood with Ethan to help Lena in “The Claiming”?

3. What character in “Sweet Sixteen” is said to shift “idly between shapes, like a dealer shuffling a deck of cards”?

4. Macon tells the townspeople at the public hearing that if Lena must be home-schooled, he will have to invite whom to live with him?

5. Who is said to be fully focused on having Lena expelled from school in “It Rhymes with Witch”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Ethan and Lena discuss when she finally lets him into her room in “Sweet Sixteen”?

2. How is the crisis surrounding Ethan’s father resolved in the end of “Lollipop Girl”?

3. What are Ethan and Lena doing in the beginning of “The Sandman or Something Like Him”?

4. What does Lena discover about the choice she has to make in her Claiming in “Family Reunion”?

5. Describe the denouement of the novel. Does the story end happily?

6. In what ways is the setting of the party significant to the main characters in “Sweet Sixteen”?

7. What does Macon remark of Mrs. Snow and her husband at the hearing in “When the Saints Go Marching In”?

8. What assertions does Macon make in response to the previous testimony at the hearing in “When the Saints Go Marching In”?

9. How is the setting of the Caster Library described in “Domus Lunae Libri”?

10. How does Macon respond when Lena confronts him about her mother in “Just Your Average American Holiday”?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the characters of Mercy, Prudence, and Grace and their role in the novel. What is Ethan’s relationship like with his aunts? What information does Ethan gain from the Sisters? How do they help him in his quest?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the setting of Greenbrier in the novel. Where is this plantation in relation to Wate’s Landing and Ravenwood Manor? What is the history of Greenbrier? Who is buried on the Greenbrier grounds?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the characters of Savannah Snow and Emily Ashcroft. How do these girls relate to Lena? Why? What are their histories with Ethan and the other students at Jackson High?

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