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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. How did Alex's father try to teach him to fend for himself?

2. What does Alex teach Cassie to do after he catches her on her wayward horse?

3. Where does Will take Cassie in Chapter Twenty?

4. Why does Alex tell the media that Cassie was away?

5. How does Alex find out that Cassie is at the reservation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What most attracts Cassie to Alex?

2. Describe Cyrus.

3. Is Will's sun dance similar to the abuse that Cassie takes from Alex?

4. Is Cassie an honest person?

5. How does the movie premiere make Cassie feel?

6. Does Cassie lead Will on?

7. How does the media coverage impact Cassie and Alex's relationship?

8. How does Cassie handle Connor's warnings about Alex?

9. Is Ophelia a good friend to Cassie?

10. Is Will looking after his own best interests by hiding Cassie?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Memory and prejudice both play important roles in Picture Perfect.

1) Describe how the author uses prejudice to create feelings about certain characters in the novel.

2) Explain how memory or the lack thereof can help to create or reduce prejudice based on examples in the story.

3) Select a minor character from the novel (Connor, Dorothea, Ophelia...) and explain how memory and prejudice play out in the growth or development of that character and their role in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

In a sense, Picture Perfect is Cassie's story of healing from a lifetime of pain. Which events in the novel do you feel were pivotal in Cassie's healing? Which other characters are able to heal in the story, and which are not able to heal their wounds and why? Are there specific characters or places in the book that are associated with pain or healing? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

The settings in Picture Perfect are many and they vary greatly: from a graveyard to a Bel-air mansion, to a sweat lodge on a Sioux reservation, to a dig in Africa. Cassie and the other characters seem to inhabit a number of different worlds. Select three of the settings in the story. For each, describe which characters are most and least comfortable there (or would be), what that venue represents to the story and to Cassie, and why you believe the author chose to include it.

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