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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 Selena reference in regards to Asher’s case?

2. What does Lily make for Asher during their first week dating?

3. Who is Lily’s fencing coach?

4. To what carnival ride does Olivia compare awaiting Asher’s verdict?

5. Which of the following instruments does Lily note is gendered *masculine*?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Olivia report having read Lord of the Rings?

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

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

7. How does the novel gloss the acronym SGCN?

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

9. How does the novel describe the process of making honey simple syrup?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of Mad Honey do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

How reliable are the narrators of the novel? What in the text indicates that reliability, 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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