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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 state do Ellie and Coop discuss on the porch over lemonade?
2. What do the bishop and the church leaders want Katie to do at the next church meeting?
3. Who agreed to accept responsibility and supervise Katie prior to trial?
4. What does Ellie do before returning to bed after watching Katie speak to someone who wasn't there?
5. Who does Lizzie Munro not interview?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapters 2-3, who was excited that Ellie had successfully gotten an acquittal for a man who sexually abused several girls, and what did this person do for Ellie?
2. In Chapter 5, when Katie recalls moments of her past, she recalled meeting someone at Jacob's graduation. Who was it?
3. In Chapter 7, what does Ellie want to know when she confronts Katie after she learns from Lizzie that Samuel had never been intimate with Katie?
4. In Chapter 6, why does Katie agree to confess her sins at the next church meeting as the bishop and church leaders have asked her to do?
5. In Chapter 1, why does Ellie Hathaway take Katie's case?
6. Why does Ellie initially get frustrated and think it will be difficult to defend Katie?
7. In Chapter 1, when does Lizzie begin to question Katie and what does she question?
8. What does Samuel admit to the bishop in Chapter 7?
9. In Chapters 2-3, the author mentioned that when Katie went to visit Jacob six years ago in State College, Jacob give her a gift. What was this gift?
10. What is a dissociative state and when can it occur?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What were the influences in Ellie's actions in the book? Why was she drawn to Katie? What made her represent Katie at trial? What guided Ellie? What made her choose the things she did?
Essay Topic 2
Throughout the book, there are many secrets, some of which impact the plot. Discuss two secrets which are revealed by the end of the book. Who knows the secret? Whose secret is it? Why is the secret important to the plot? How is the secret revealed? How is the secret hinted at and its revealing foreshadowed?
Essay Topic 3
The feeling of betrayal is felt by more then one character in Plain Truth, and through memories, is felt by even more characters in the past, before the events of the book take place. Discuss at least three different situations where there are feelings of betrayal. Who was involved? What was the situation? Why did someone feel betrayed?
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