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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. As Lee is at the airport for a flight home for Christmas break, who invites Lee to hang out while waiting?

2. What embarrassing subject does Lee’s mother bring up during Christmas break in Chapter 8?

3. What does Lee demand Cross not do in Chapter 8?

4. Lee interrupts a romantic moment between what two people in Chapter 6?

5. According to his roommate on page 374, what has Cross played better than any other boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Angie tell Lee during their phone call after the article is published in Chapter 8?

2. Why does Lee get punished in Chapter 8? What punishment is she given, and what happens?

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

4. How does Lee react to the article published in the New York Times in Chapter 8?

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

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

7. According to Lee in Chapter 6, what did she learn from Conchita and Dave? How does she describe her relationships with these two people?

8. How does Martha help Lee academically in Chapter 7? How does Martha feel about her deed?

9. Who is elected senior prefects in Chapter 7? How does Lee react?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Lee experiences great change over the course of the novel. In what ways does she change and in what ways does she remain the same? By the novel’s end, is she better for these changes? What makes you say this? Explain your opinion using examples from the text.

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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