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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. In Chapter 4, whose behavior makes Lee vow never to cut hair again?
2. What does Lee decide about the accessory worn by the intern English teacher at the end of Chapter 4?
3. What does Lee teach Conchita in Chapter 3?
4. According to Lee in Chapter 1, whose idea was it for Lee to attend Ault?
5. According to Lee in Chapter 4, what is a holdover from her parents’ generation and does not apply to the students at Ault?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. According to Lee at the start of Chapter 5, what characterizes the parents of wealthy Ault students? How does Lee’s family compare?
3. What does Lee discover about the thief at the end of Chapter 1?
4. What are circumstances around Lee's assassination in Chapter 3?
5. Discuss two ways Lee’s parents embarrass her during the parents’ weekend at Ault. How does Lee react?
6. What does Lee think about racism at Ault? How does Chapter 4 further develop this theme?
7. Why does Lee go to the mall in Chapter 2, and what happens there?
8. Why does Lee receive a failing grade on her second paper in Chapter 4? Why is she later given an A?
9. What talent does Lee discover in Chapter 4? What does Martha think of this talent?
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
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 in which you compare and contrast the world of Ault with the world of South Bend, Indiana. How does Lee define the similarities and differences between her new world and her original one?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the characters of Conchita, Little, and Sin-Jun. What do these characters illustrate about the Ault community? What do they illustrate about Lee?
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