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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 Shane agree to go with Eva in Chapter 21?

2. What did Eva try to do to herself at 17?

3. What is Audre's bedroom wall covered in?

4. What about Eva is embarrassing to Audre?

5. Who does Audre make a portrait of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who supplies Annabelle with drugs?

2. What does Shane agree to do as a favor for Eva?

3. What does Lizette do for a living in the present day?

4. Whose old house is Shane staying in while in New York?

5. What has Eva been trying to forget since she was 17?

6. Where did Shane live when he was 17?

7. What retail store did Eva work at as a teen?

8. Who did Eva lose her virginity to?

9. What does Audre make Shane promise?

10. Who is the talk of Cece's party?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you explore the relationship between Eva and Audre. What is the nature of this relationship, and how does it affect Audre in particular? What does she want from this relationship? Use evidence from the text as support.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay exploring Eva's relationship to writing. Why does Eva start writing when she is a teenager? Why is writing important to her on a personal level?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring Eva's fascination with her mother's idea that the women in her family are cursed. In what ways have they been cursed? In what ways does Eva, as she puts it, break the curse? In other words, how is she different from the other women in her family?

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