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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 Lily note reading?

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

3. What author does Olivia suggest Braden read?

4. Which of the following poets does Lily read for English class?

5. In which of the following colleges does Asher express interest?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What biological reason does Olivia note for the survival of bees?

3. What surprises Lily about the Rainbow Alliance?

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

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

6. Why, per the novel, is mad honey to be avoided?

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

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

9. In the novel, what is a steamed cheese?

10. Why does Olivia note Ava is a better mother than she?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Overall, what is the most important theme of Mad Honey. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Picoult and Boylan’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

Essay Topic 3

Overall, what opinion of the U.S. legal system does the novel present? How does it present that opinion?

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