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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. With which of the following do the authors note wanting to co-write?

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

3. What kind of bird startles Olivia as she searches for Asher amid his trial?

4. What baby name do Olivia and Braden consider?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the novel gloss the acronym SGCN?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does the novel explain the effects of TTP?

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

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

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

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

To what genre other than suspense might Mad Honey be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? 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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