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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 smells like lilac shampoo?
2. Of what does Otis Warren assure Q?
3. What is Radar's role for the trip?
4. Who is Gus?
5. Instead of a mystery, what does Q decide Margo is?
Short Essay Questions
1. What clue does Q try to figure out and track down?
2. What do Q's parents say about humans mirroring each other?
3. What do Q and Radar talk about after Q calls him from hanging up with Ben?
4. How does Q finally figure out where Margo is?
5. What does Q decide after seeing the changes at the mini mall?
6. What do Q and Lacey talk about in the bathroom?
7. What does Q find when he searches the shelves again and what does he realize from that?
8. What transpires the first five hours of their trip?
9. What significant conversation do Ben and Q have in hour twelve?
10. What changes does Q find in the mini mall?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Margo hates everything normal about herself and feels no one around her is authentic. She seems to be a person fully alienated and critical of her society and her social group. She does not fit into any of the social groups even though she is admired by her peers.
1. What do you think a student should do if she/he doesn't fit into the crowd at school? Use examples from Paper Towns and your life to support your answer.
2. What do you think makes a student stick out from others? Use examples from Paper Towns and your life to support your answer.
3. Why do you think Margo feels different from her peers? Use examples from Paper Towns and your life to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss one of the following:
1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Paper Towns.
2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Paper Towns. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Paper Towns. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
Essay Topic 3
There are a number of interesting questions raised by Paper Towns. Questions that Green most likely want readers to consider and think through carefully. Discuss the following:
1. What does the term "author agenda" mean?
2. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Green's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Green's probable agenda concerning that idea.
2. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?
3. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?
4. Research the life of John Green and see if/where his life may have influenced his writing.
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