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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 Baz think Penny smells like?

2. What does Simon ask Baz to call him in Chapter 60?

3. What does Baz toss on the pool table in the vampire bar that startles all the vampires?

4. Why did Baz's father decline to pay the ransom for him?

5. Who does Simon visit in Chapter 52?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Agatha react when Penny brings her to Baz's house in Chapter 65?

2. In Chapter 65, why does Baz tell Penny and Simon he did not want to tell them he was kidnapped?

3. In Chapter 48, what do Simon and Baz do together that seems to represent a turning point in their relationship?

4. Why does Baz tell Simon not to kill the dragon but only to try to subdue it?

5. What does Simon do in Chapter 61 to stop Baz from killing himself that shocks both of them?

6. What interesting information does Simon learn from Ebb in Chapter 52 that he has to tell Baz immediately?

7. In Chapter 44, who do Baz and Simon assume is responsible for the attack on Watford that killed Natasha Grimm-Pitch?

8. Why does Baz tell Penny in Chapter 65 that the person who killed his mother could never have been someone in his family?

9. Why does Penny really bring Agatha to Baz's house in Chapter 66?

10. What is Simon's first impression when he walks into the den of vampires with Baz in Chapter 60?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing Rowell's decision to have Simon and Baz more openly express their love for each other and reveal their homosexual relationship to the world by the novel's end - whereas earlier in the book, both young men were reluctant to let anyone know about the true nature of their feelings for each other. Why do you think Rowell chose end the book this way?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay exploring how working on the mystery of Natasha Grimm-Pitch's death together changes the dynamics between Baz, Simon, Penny, and Agatha.

Essay Topic 3

In Carry On, the reader understands whose Simon Snow's parents are and how his mother, Lucy, felt about him, but neither Simon nor any of the other main characters ever discover this information. Write an essay exploring why Rowell might have chosen to make the intriguing and somewhat unusual choice to reveal this important information to the reader but to keep it from the characters.

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