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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 book do the students study in Chapter 4?
2. How does Lee’s father describe his daughter on page 201?
3. Who confesses to Lee that she is the thief in Chapter 1?
4. What word does Lee use to describe the accessory worn by the intern English teacher in Chapter 4?
5. How does Lee view her parents impending visit to campus in Chapter 5?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Lee's plan to kill her second target, McGrath, in Chapter 3?
2. Who is the intern English teacher, and what accessory does she often wear in Chapter 4? What does Lee think about this accessory over the course of the chapter?
3. What does Lee discover about the thief at the end of Chapter 1?
4. What happens with Lee's presentation in Chapter 1?
5. Why do Lee and her father blow up at one another in Chapter 5? What is the culmination of this argument?
6. Why do Lee and Dede argue near the end of Chapter 1?
7. Why is Chapter 3 named "Assassin"?
8. How does Lee’s family come to view the weekend that transpires in Chapter 5? How do they refer to it, and how does Lee come to view it?
9. What talent does Lee discover in Chapter 4? What does Martha think of this talent?
10. Who is Lee's first victim in Assassin and how does she kill them?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Lee experiences great change over the course of the novel. In what ways does she change and in what ways does she remain the same? By the novel’s end, is she better for these changes? What makes you say this? Explain your opinion using examples from the text.
Essay Topic 2
The antagonist of a novel is a character or force who works in opposition to the protagonist. Who is the antagonist of the novel? Cross? Aspeth? Ault? Lee herself? What do you think? Make a case for that which you believe best fits the criteria of an antagonist in Prep.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Lee’s contradictory characteristics. In what ways does she see the world around her clearly? In what ways does she lack understanding?
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