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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 movement from Holst’s The Planets is Lily set to play?

2. What prompted Selena’s major surgery?

3. From what state does Olivia order bees?

4. At what school is Jordan’s surprise expert witness a professor?

5. What band does Asher note Lily had told him changed their name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Asher note talking about with Ava upon first meeting her?

2. Why, per Olivia, does honey prevent hangovers?

3. For what reason does Asher ask his mother to be removed from his consultations with Jordan?

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

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

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

7. What does Ava cite as early evidence of Lily’s status as trans?

8. How does the novel gloss the term “chaser”?

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

10. How does Newcomb describe his first experience testifying in court?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that Mad Honey should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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