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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 type of men populate the literature in Plough’s seminar class, as explained on page 321?

2. What is the first name of Professor Plough?

3. According to Vanessa on page 246, what did Strane steal from her?

4. What does Plough thinks of all Strane’s attempts to contact her on page 330?

5. According to Vanessa on page 319, what does Vanessa believe about her role in Strane’s abuse of other girls?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Jo and how does she get her name?

2. What package does Vanessa receive in the mail following Strane’s death? What effect does this package have on her?

3. How is Vanessa’s mother haunted by the past, as revealed by Jan Wye on page 363?

4. What does Vanessa learn from Jenny in the spring of 2002?

5. How does Strane react to his encounter with Plough? How does Vanessa react to it?

6. Who is Craig, and how does Vanessa meet him? What happens between them?

7. How does Vanessa fit in on campus, as explained on page 269?

8. Who are Jade and Charley and what impact do they have on Vanessa?

9. How does Jo keep Vanessa in the present moment, as explained on page 369?

10. What does Vanessa tell Ruby about the extent of her control over Strane on page 319? What does Ruby say in response?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The antagonist of a novel is a character or force who works in opposition to the protagonist. Who is the antagonist of the novel? Jacob Strane? Taylor Birch? The Browick administration? Vanessa herself? What do you think? Make a case for that which you believe best fits the criteria of an antagonist in My Dark Vanessa.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing how the author uses characters and behaviors to develop and strengthen the murky issue of consent.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the author’s choice to tell this story by using the first-person perspective. How does viewing the action through a first-person perspective affect the story? How would the novel change if the story was told through the third person?

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