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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 does Bronwyn's lawyer hope the ruling will be?

2. Who does Addy think are hypocrites?

3. Who does Nate get texts from in Part 2?

4. How does Nonny know Cooper does not love Keely?

5. Where do Bronwyn and Nate escape to in Part 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nate see that Addy has changed by Part 3?

2. What does Maeve discover when she goes on Simon's admin board?

3. Why is Bronwyn interested in Eli?

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

5. What are the police accused of violating regarding Cooper?

6. What is revealed about Maeve?

7. Why does Addy cut off her hair?

8. What show are the students featured on?

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

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

Mr. Avery tells the students in detention to hand write a 500-word essay on how technology is ruining schools. Why might the author have included this interaction and how do the students react to the assignment? What message may the author be sending by having the teacher call longhand a lost art?

Essay Topic 3

Define hypocrisy and relate how the behaviors and actions of two or more characters are hypocritical. Cite textual evidence and draw parallels between what the author seems to believe about social justice and how the novel's characters are punished for lying.

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