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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 Marlene claim she did to help Joan out of the water?

2. Around the same time Joan is getting anonymous calls, who telephones and invites her to dinner?

3. Why does Joan fall into the water?

4. Who is arrested for murder?

5. What does Joan wash out in the basin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Joan accomplished a transformation at the end of the novel?

2. Explain how Joan uses lies to allow herself a vacation to Italy.

3. What are Paul's intentions towards Joan?

4. How does Joan let go of her past?

5. Why does the presence of the strange man who talks with her landlord spur Joan to action?

6. Who is Fraser Buchanan?

7. Why does Joan feel she needs to disappear again?

8. What does the reappearance of The Fat Lady in Chapter 27 suggest about how Joan perceives herself?

9. How does Joan use her novel to explore her own life?

10. Describe Joan's plan to fake her death.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As Joan sheds pounds, she makes the choice to become a new person to match her new image and calls herself Louisa K. Delacourt. Discuss the importance of this decision to Joan's future. Why is it a relief to her to be someone else?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Joan's actions that show her as a woman who is independent but also submissive to the men in her life. When she leaves her double life behind, how does she begin to show that she is becoming more assertive?

Essay Topic 3

Joan works on a novel while she's in Terremoto and has trouble creating the ending. Do you find the storyline of Stalked by Love and the characters Felicia and Charlotte reflective of Joan's own conflicts and fears? Provide examples that show how Joan's life gets written into Stalked by Love.

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