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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 year is Miss Rona's autobiography copyrighted?

2. Why does Brandy demand silence as the three approach the Canadian border into the USA?

3. In Shannon's opinion, what are Shannon, Brandy, and Evie all competing for?

4. Who is left to distract the realtor while Brandy and Shannon go upstairs?

5. What do Shannon and Brandy search for along with the drugs?

Short Essay Questions

1. What device does the author employ again and again to convey Shannon's emotions?

2. What happens on the day that Shannon's bandages are removed when she visits the grocery store?

3. Why does Shannon prefer to think of her brother as dead?

4. What has Shannon told her parents, instead of telling them about the accident?

5. Why have Brandy and her comrades come to the open house?

6. Why does Evie live in a mansion in the suburbs?

7. Why do Evie and Shannon continually visit the department store?

8. What does the narrator warn the reader about the novel's structure?

9. Why does Brandy introduce Shannon to veils?

10. What is Shannon's father's strategy for selling his pigs at market?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do a character study of Evie Cottrell. What role does she play in the novel? How does her relationships with the other characters further the plot? How does her character contribute to the central themes of the novel? Is she a static character or does she undergo changes throughout the text? Explore Evie's idea of beautiful people together being less than the sum of their parts. How does this idea contribute to the novel? Is Shannon changed by this theory? Be sure to use examples from the text in your arguments.

Essay Topic 2

Brandy credits the Rhea sisters with making her who she is. Who exactly are the Rhea sisters? How do the Rhea sisters help Brandy once she finds them? Why did Brandy allow the Rhea sisters to make her over? Who is responsible for calling Brandy's family with the news that she is dead? What kind of attitude do the Rheas instill in Brandy and how does this enable her adventures?

Essay Topic 3

In the novel the author makes use of different devices to tell the story. In Shannon's case, many of her feelings are related using the Phantom Photographer, a mechanism that allows the reader to know how she is feeling indirectly. What are the implications of this Phantom Photographer? Why doesn't Shannon simply tell the reader herself what she is feeling? How does viewing her state of mind through a photographer provide insight to her former life as a model as well as her inner self?

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