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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. Where does Andi's father want to put her mother?

2. Who comes to watch Alex's family's puppet show one day?

3. How does Andi's father feel about her interest in music?

4. What opens the lock on the guitar case?

5. Why is there tension between Andi and her father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is foreshadowed in the conversation between Louis-Charles and Alex as they discuss the fireworks?

2. Alex and her family are unhappy with the king, so why does she take the job the queen offers?

3. Why does Andi want to visit the catacombs?

4. What happens between Andi and Nick at Nick's party?

5. Who is Virgil and what is his relationship with Andi?

6. Why is Alex risking herself to light fireworks?

7. What do Andi and her father begin to argue about when they arrive in Paris?

8. What is the relationship like between Andi and her mother as the book opens?

9. What is Andi's senior thesis?

10. What does Andi learn while watching her father and G discuss their DNA testing on a talk show?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Andi's father and his partner, G, are in Paris to test the DNA of a heart believed to belong to Louis-Charles, the lost prince of France. Explain the death of Louis-Charles in its historical perspective (based upon what Andi learns from G). Who is Louis-Charles? Who are his parents? Why have they been imprisoned? What started the French Revolution? Who was Robespierre? Who was Bonaparte? What is believed to have happened to the young prince?

Essay Topic 2

Andi and her friend Nick have a complicated relationship. So far the reader is unsure about why their relationship is so strained, but it is known that it has to do with Andi's brother.

1) How does Nick convince Andi to come to the party he is having?

2) Why does Andi decide to go?

3) What happens on the roof of Nick's house?

4) Why is Nick's girlfriend upset by what she sees on the roof? How has she misunderstood the situation?

Essay Topic 3

Andi is suffering from depression and is taking antidepressants to help her cope with her emotional state. However, throughout the book she takes it upon herself to change the doses of her medication. Some days she takes less, other days she takes too much.

1) Discuss what happens to Andi that makes her change her medication doses?

2) What are the results of Andi's medication changes?

3) Is it safe for Andi to play with her medications? Why or why not?

4) How is Andi's desire to tamper with her medications an indication of her emotional state?

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