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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. Who distracts Madame Dabney?

2. What do Cammie, Bex, and Liz ask the Headmistress about their living suite?

3. Why are Cammie and Bex tapped to take the visitors on a tour?

4. What kind of students does the school actually enroll?

5. Where is Josh's family going on a Saturday evening?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Cammie's encounter with Josh.

2. Describe the first day of covert operations class.

3. How does Mr. Solomon upset Cammie? Why does Cammie choose not to mention it to her mother?

4. How do Macey, Bex and Liz help Cammie prepare for her "mission Josh," and what does Cammie think about the process?

5. What does Cammie find when she approaches the funnel cake stand?

6. What does Cammie's mother ask Bex and Cammie to do and what are they to ensure happens?

7. What happens to cause Bex and Macey to fight and who steps in to break it up and to mete out punishment?

8. What does Cammie reveal herself to Josh and what happens?

9. How does Joe Solomon calm Mascey down as she is racing back to tell her parents she does not want to stay at Gallagher's?

10. What is the subject of covert operations class in their next meeting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of fitting into a social crowd in I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with fitting in? Why? What are some symbols of fitting in? Symbols of being an outsider? What characters seem to be outsiders to the group around them?

2. Trace and analyze the theme of secrets in I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters have secrets? Why? How do secrets affect the characters?

3. Trace and analyze the theme of self-knowledge in I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You. Consider Cammie's knowledge of herself from the first Chapter to what she knows by the end of the book. What about Macy? What other characters learn some deep truths about themselves? Is acquiring self-knowledge a part of being a teenager? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:

1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Ally Carter.

2. What in Carter's background may have helped her in writing I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You? What may have influenced the way he depicts various characters and scenes?

3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.

Carter's background may have helped her in writing I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You? What may have influenced the way he depicts various characters and scenes?

4. What does the term "author agenda" mean?

5. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Carter's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Carter's probable agenda concerning that idea.

6. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface? Why or why not?

7. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author? Explain your answer with examples.

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