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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. According to Lee at the start of Chapter 5, what is one thing that characterizes the parents of Ault’s rich students?

2. Who reacts angrily after getting in trouble for her English presentation in Chapter 4?

3. What is the name of the student who first asks Lee to cut his hair in Chapter 4?

4. According to Lee at the start of Chapter 5, how were her parents traveling to Ault for parents’ weekend?

5. According to Lee in Chapter 1, where is Sin-Jun from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lee discover about the thief at the end of Chapter 1?

2. What is Lee's plan to kill her second target, McGrath, in Chapter 3?

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

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

5. Why do Lee and her father blow up at one another in Chapter 5? What is the culmination of this argument?

6. What are circumstances around Lee's assassination in Chapter 3?

7. What happens when Lee gets back to her dorm after surprise holiday in Chapter 2?

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

10. What talent does Lee discover in Chapter 4? What does Martha think of this talent?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the author’s choice to tell this story by using the first-person perspective. How does viewing the action through a first-person perspective affect the story? How would the novel change if the story was told through the third person?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay explaining the significance of the title of the novel, Prep. How does the title reflect the main characters? How does the title reflect the novel’s themes and conflicts? How does the title’s meaning change over the course of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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