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

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

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

4. What word does Lee use to describe the accessory worn by the intern English teacher in Chapter 4?

5. Who is the first to tell Lee and Dede about the surprise holiday in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do Lee and Dede argue near the end of Chapter 1?

3. Who is Gates and what does the reader learn about her in Chapter 1?

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. What is the "surprise holiday" and how is it shared with the students in Chapter 2?

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

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

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

9. Where do Lee and Martha go in Chapter 3?

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

Write an essay defining friendship from the perspective of Lee. What does it mean to be a friend, according to Lee? How do the choices she makes reflect these values?

Essay Topic 2

Lee finds herself involved in several conflicts over the course of the novel. Choose one instance of internal conflict and one instance of external conflict and explain how these conflicts have an impact on the novel and on the other characters.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the game of Assassin and the role it plays, both for Lee individually and for the Ault community as a whole.

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