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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. When does Chapter 2 take place?

2. What is Conchita's ethnicity, as explained in Chapter 3?

3. What sport does Lee start playing in Chapter 3?

4. What does Lee see in Little's eyes at the end of Chapter 1?

5. According to Lee in Chapter 1, whose idea was it for Lee to attend Ault?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss two ways Lee’s parents embarrass her during the parents’ weekend at Ault. How does Lee react?

2. Why is Lee embarrassed to read her English paper aloud to the class in Chapter 4? How does her teacher respond?

3. Who are Maria and Rufina, and what do they think of Ault? Why is this, according to Lee?

4. According to Lee in Chapter 2, how is she different at Ault compared to how she was at her old school?

5. Who is Lee's first victim in Assassin and how does she kill them?

6. Why does Lee go to the mall in Chapter 2, and what happens there?

7. 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?

8. According to Lee at the start of Chapter 5, what characterizes the parents of wealthy Ault students? How does Lee’s family compare?

9. Why is Chapter 3 named "Assassin"?

10. What does Lee discover in her home at the end of Chapter 5? What does it make her realize?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The power of money is a major theme of Prep. Choose three situations in which this theme is illustrated. Explain how each situation illustrates this theme, and evaluate what the author is trying to say about this subject.

Essay Topic 2

William Faulkner once wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Explain how the novel illustrates this idea.

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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