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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 happened to Aiden Wu?

2. What is the title of Part 2?

3. Who does Cooper's dad blame?

4. What is Kris's nationality?

5. What does Nate give Bronwyn in Part 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Nate and Cooper treated differently than Addy and Bronwyn?

2. Why does Addy cut off her hair?

3. How is Bronwyn being implicated?

4. Why does Addy want to be funny?

5. What show are the students featured on?

6. Why is Bronwyn interested in Eli?

7. Why does Mikhail use his show to promote the students' innocence?

8. What is Bronwyn's Dante's Inferno allusion?

9. What is revealed about Maeve?

10. Why is Keely a common thread in the mystery?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cooper says that one of the best things about baseball is that he is not able to check his phone while he is playing. Explain why that is a relief for Cooper. Include Cooper's complicated relationship with his athletic success. What is Cooper afraid of? How are his inner and outer self in conflict?

Essay Topic 2

Simon's death causes internal and external conflict in the narrators. Which conflict seems most difficult for the main characters to deal with? What is the author's purpose in revealing seemingly small slights?

Essay Topic 3

Simon's death occurs very quickly in the novel. Why is the timing of this plot point significant? What would change if the author wrote the story so that Simon died in the middle of the book?

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