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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. At the beginning of Chapter 25, how many tennis rackets does Claire break?

2. What did Claire's father do for a living?

3. How many pages is the file that contains descriptions, photographs, and serial numbers of everything in Claire and Paul's house?

4. During the last 17 1/2 years, what month would Paul hire a private detective to check in on Lydia?

5. Where does Claire remember that she and Paul took a flight and took a limo to the airport?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lydia tell Penelope Ward about Dee's father?

2. What does Claire remember about the earrings she is wearing when she and Paul are robbed?

3. Who is Lydia's boyfriend and what is he like?

4. Where does Claire Paul's work files, and how does Lydia suggest they get the files to Adam?

5. What composite drawing do the police release in Chapter 6?

6. Why does Captain Mayhew say that the videos Claire finds are fake?

7. What does the man look like who robs Claire and Paul in the alley?

8. How had Paul's obsessive compulsive disorder manifested itself?

9. Why did Claire assault Allison Hendrickson?

10. How does Lydia describe Claire to Rick?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based upon her interpretation of life. How does Slaughter use artistic license to create the realistic background of Pretty Girls?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What points of view are used in Pretty Girls? How do these points of view influence what readers know about events and characters? How does changing the point of view help readers connect with and understand the characters?

Essay Topic 3

Sam and Helen divorced. Why do they divorce? Do they act like a typical divorced couple? Why or why not?

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