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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. What does Andi find in the bottom of the guitar case?

2. What does Andi discover when she tries to buy lunch?

3. What does Andi find in the items she has requested from the library?

4. When is Alexandrine writing her diary?

5. Who invites Andi to a party?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Andi's senior thesis?

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

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

4. How is Andi's mother coping with the death of Truman?

5. What story does G tell Andi about the French Revolution when she meets him?

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

7. What happens at the castle that shows the depth of Alex's feelings for the prince?

8. Who is the Green Man and why is Andi so interested in him?

9. Why do fireworks make Louis-Charles both happy and sad?

10. What is life like for Alex as her story begins?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Andi reads the last entry in Alex's diary and is devastated by what she learns.

1) What happens to Alex that causes Andi to reconsider committing suicide?

2) What else has contributed to this feeling?

3) How is Andi's plan to jump from the Eiffel Tower stopped?

Essay Topic 2

As Alex's story unfolds it becomes clear that the Duc d' Orleans is a formidable antagonist.

1) Who is the Duc.

2) What does he want?

3) How does he use Alex's relationship with the prince to his advantage?

4) What role does the Duc play in the Terror of September 1792?

5) What happens to the Duc as the revolution moves forward?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Andi and why is she suffering from depression as the book opens? What do we know about Andi's life? Why is she taking antidepressants? What is life like between her mother and father? What happened to create this situation?

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