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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 position did Jonah play?

2. Which of the following does Selena reference in regards to Asher’s case?

3. From what state does Olivia order bees?

4. To what school does Ava want Lily to go?

5. What name does Olivia give to the queen who succeeds Celine?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What surprises Lily about the Rainbow Alliance?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does Mad Honey bear as much out?

Essay Topic 2

A lack of formal sectional—as opposed to chapter-by-chapter—division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. How might the novel be sectioned off other than it currently is? Why might those divisions be appropriate, based on the text and its contexts of composition and reception?

Essay Topic 3

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

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