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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. In Chapter 10, what does Maggie ask Liz?

2. Where does Maggie speak to Dennis at in Chapter 13?

3. What has happened to the letter Liz wrote to Sean?

4. Describe Liz's condition when she arrives back at home in Chapter 14.

5. Where do Sean and Liz drive to after the dance?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Liz tell Maggie to let her die?

2. Why does Liz decide that she is in no hurry to get home in Chapter 9?

3. What improvements are made to the relationship between Dennis and Maggie in Chapter 8?

4. In what ways is Maggie a good friend? How is she a bad friend?

5. Describe the tone of the note at the end of Chapter 12 from Liz to Maggie. In what tone might the reader find the note?

6. What is ironic in Chapter 9?

7. Why does Sean decide to talk to his father? What are the results?

8. Why do the girls wear their prom gowns to the clinic?

9. Why do you think Maggie and Liz have planned an urgent meeting?

10. Why does Sean assume that his father intercepted Liz's letter to him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the two major relationships in the story: Maggie and Dennis, then Liz and Sean. How and why are the relationships so different? How does each relationship cause conflict? How do characters behave, grow, and develop as a result of the relationship?

Essay Topic 2

What role does peer pressure play in the novel? what message about peer pressure does the author wish to send? How do the characters cope with peer pressure? Do you think the author meant for the characters to serve as a model for peer pressure and the ideal way for teens to deal with it? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

What symbolism is present in Sean's essay? What is the significance of the title of his essay, "The Circus of Darkness"? What can the reader learn from Sean as a result?

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