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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. Why does Cara think that Pip is coming over to her house in Chapter Twenty-Seven?

2. How does Pip explain the absence of her laptop to her father?

3. Where is Pip in Chapter Thirty-Three?

4. Besides Cara and Naomi, who else is at the Ward house when Pip goes to confront Naomi about the picture?

5. What do Pip and Josh plan to plant on Barney's grave?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whom does Pip see when she is driving Ravi home in Chapter Forty-Five, and what does she think they are going to do?

2. What does Pip finally decide to write her college application essay about?

3. How does Ravi persuade Pip to stay involved in the investigation?

4. When Barney disappears, how does Ravi show his concern for Pip, and how does she respond?

5. When Pip sees Becca at the newspaper office, what story is Becca working on, and what is her personal interest in it?

6. How did Andie Bell actually die?

7. What does Pip find in the attic of the house at Forty-Two Gravesend Road?

8. What information does Becca give Pip about Daniel da Silva?

9. When Pip and Ravi are at the Fairview train station after returning from Westport, what do they see, and what lie does it expose?

10. Whom does Pip run into unexpectedly at the high school in Chapter Thirty, and what clue does Pip miss during their conversation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about Pip's struggle to understand herself in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that analyzes the significance of the title of the novel A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that analyzes the role of social media in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.

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