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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 do the three sisters do with the trophies?

2. What embarrasses Tess?

3. What happened when Jim tells Jack who he is?

4. What does Willa do to express her anger about the trophies?

5. Why is the killer happy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Willa tell Jim after he tells her his story?

2. At the spa, what does Tess say about Ben and why does she say it?

3. What does Nate tell Tess in Chapter 26 and how does she respond? What does he say to her response?

4. Where do Adam and Willa find Jesse's jeep, what does Willa tell him, and what does Lily do about being abducted?

5. What does Willa tease Ben about on the ride after she returns from the spa?

6. What does Tess and Willa fight about in Chapter 18 and what does Tess tell Ben and Ben tell Tess?

7. What does Lily confess to her sisters at the spa and what did Tess do for Willa?

8. What happens with Tess after the year is up and what does she do at the airport?

9. What does the killer do to Lily?

10. Why does Jesse grab Lily and how does he get away?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In most fiction, readers would like all the loose ends to be neatly "tied up." Discuss the following:

1. Do you think Montana Sky is successful as a mystery novel? Why or why not?

2. What about this book would motivate you to read another of Nora Roberts alphabet series? What would discourage you from doing so?

3. Were all the "loose ends" satisfactorily settled for you? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

In this book, three sisters meet, live together for a year, meet men and end up either married or ready to be married. The plot is almost unbelievable.

1. With research, define narrative contrivance and use two situations from Montana Sky to support your definition.

2. Discuss the following statement: Narrative contrivances detract from a book if they are too unbelievable.

3. Do you think the author could have written a better book if she had not made the situation of three sisters meeting three men and just happen to fall in love with those three men all living in a small town? Explain what might have been more believable.

Essay Topic 3

Roberts chooses to write the novel as a third person, impersonal narrator. Discuss the following:

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Montana Sky being written in the third person, impersonal narration?

2. Do you think the novel would be more effective in a different point of view? Which one if so? If not why do you think the impersonal narrator works the best?

3. Do you think the narrator in Montana Skya is reliable, i.e., do you believe the narrator is completely unbiased? Explain your response.

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