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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. Who is Maya expecting to arrive at her house when a departing Ava does?

2. In what grade was Lily when she got Boris?

3. What was the name of Lily’s imaginary spider?

4. What was the last name of Lily’s father?

5. What prompted Selena’s major surgery?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What surprises Lily about the Rainbow Alliance?

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

Which parts of the novel are written by which author? How can you tell, based on the text and knowledge of the authors’ other writings?

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

How reliable are the narrators of the novel? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

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