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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. How does Lee describe her shame she feels in Chapter 6?

2. Lee’s math teacher also performs what role for Lee, as explained in Chapter 7?

3. Who offers Lee the opportunity to be interviewed with a reporter in Chapter 8?

4. Whom does Lee meet while at the hospital in Chapter 6?

5. Who sends Lee the second Valentine’s rose?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the term “spring cleaning” mean? How does it apply to Lee in Chapter 7?

2. Who is the reporter from The New York Times, and what does Lee tell her in Chapter 8?

3. Into what college is Lee accepted in Chapter 8? Where is she rejected?

4. What happens to Sin-Jun at the start of Chapter 6? How does Lee learn this information?

5. According to Lee in Chapter 6, what information might have changed the way Dave saw Lee? Why does she think this?

6. What evidence does Lee have in Chapter 8 that leads her to conclude that Cross cares about her?

7. Who is Aubrey? What does the reader learn about him in Chapter 7?

8. According to Lee in Chapter 7, why should she not be kicked out of school? What is her reasoning?

9. How does Lee’s father react to the article published in the New York Times in Chapter 8?

10. Who comes to visit Lee at the start of Chapter 8? What is Lee’s reaction to this visit?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the characters of Conchita, Little, and Sin-Jun. What do these characters illustrate about the Ault community? What do they illustrate about Lee?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Lee’s contradictory characteristics. In what ways does she see the world around her clearly? In what ways does she lack understanding?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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