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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 edited the novel?

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

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

4. Which of the following does Lily note reading?

5. How many years of experience as an attorney does Jordan claim?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What surprises Lily about the Rainbow Alliance?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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