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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. Which of the following does the novel note has been adapted as a musical?

2. In what grade was Lily when she got Boris?

3. Which of the following does Asher note Lily could play on cello?

4. At what age did Asher start playing hockey?

5. Under what name does Asher have his father listed in his phone contacts?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lily turn her match against Seidlarz at Dartmouth?

2. Per Asher, what did Lily want to do with Yo-Yo Ma, and why?

3. Why does Lily think the gender-distribution of orchestral musicians strange?

4. Why does Jordan find himself envious of the prosecutor as he awaits Asher’s verdict?

5. How is the process of Lily’s medical transition glossed by the surgeon who performed the surgical portion of her transition?

6. What reasons does Lily posit for having chosen to play cello?

7. In which of Ava’s features does Olivia discern Lily?

8. What motion does Jordan make first after the prosecution rests?

9. How does the novel gloss the acronym SGCN?

10. What evidence of a skunk’s presence at her hives does Olivia have?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

If there is a principal antagonist in the novel, who is it? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in Mad Honey? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

Essay Topic 3

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

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