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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. How are the girls' parents making them spend their expulsion from school?

2. Where do the girls wait for Emma?

3. What was Massie doing at the salon?

4. Where do the girls like to spend their free time?

5. When the girls first get to the studio, what are they given one hour to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Massie and Alicia treat Claire after the audition?

2. What makes Rupert decide on the girl who gets the movie role?

3. How do the characters prepare for their trip?

4. Why are not all of the girls going to California?

5. How can the reader tell that many people like Massie a lot?

6. How does Claire dress before and after her audition?

7. How can the reader tell that Abby and Hadley are childish and badly behaved?

8. How does the jet's takeoff go?

9. What is Abby and Hadley's relationship?

10. How is Massie spending her time while she is expelled?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Personification is when an object or idea is used to represent a person, or is treated as though it were a person. Personification can also refer to when a human is meant to represent an idea. For example, Jack Frost is the personification of frost. Cite 3 examples of personification in the book. How does the author show the reader that these objects or ideas are treated as people?

Essay Topic 2

While this series normally takes place in Westchester, New York, most of the action in this book takes place in California, with many characters being left behind in Westchester.

1. What goes on in Westchester while the girls are in California?

2. How would the novel be different if it were instead told from the viewpoint of Kristen or Dylan?

3. The author could have directly narrated scenes in both settings, but instead chose to describe most Westchester events through gossip and phone conversations. What does this contribute to the novel? How would the novel be different if the reader had direct access to these parts of the story?

Essay Topic 3

Since this series is named after cliques, cliques are clearly an important theme for each book.

1. In this novel, do cliques seem to be good or bad? Is the Pretty Committee a valuable support network, or is it a burden to its members? Does the Pretty Committee's structure help its members, or hurt them?

2. Is it better to be part of a clique, or unaffiliated? Why are the various cliques so competitive with one another? Would you consider Layne to be a member of the Pretty Committee? Why or why not?

3. How do the cliques rearrange themselves throughout the novel? Is the dynamic of the Pretty Committee the same at the end as it was at the beginning?

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