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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 poets does Lily read for English class?

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

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

4. To which of the following is the physician who performed Lily’s surgery compared?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason does Asher ask his mother to be removed from his consultations with Jordan?

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

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

4. What difference does Lily note between herself in Asher in their early exchange of personal secrets?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What character is the protagonist of Mad Honey? How does the novel support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

If there is a principal antagonist in the novel, who is it? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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