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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 is the result of what Nikolas did to Christine?

2. What does Nissa ask Sarah when she sees her the next morning at school?

3. Who is Kaleo?

4. Where does Sarah find her father's body?

5. Who is Elisabeth Vida?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had happened to Christine?

2. What concerns Sarah about Robert?

3. Describe the argument and counter-argument between Sarah and Christopher.

4. Why is Sarah expelled from her last school?

5. What does Kaleo say to Sarah when she becomes aware of his presence in the room?

6. Nissa warns Sarah about whom? Why does Sarah ask Nissa about Kaleo?

7. What happens to Sarah as a result of fighting Kaleo and how does she escape the house?

8. What does Robert want when he comes up to the table where Nissa, Christopher, and Sarah are sitting? What does Christopher say is odd about Robert's behavior lately?

9. Why does Sarah want to stay at SingleEarth and what is the condition under which she may do so?

10. Who is Sarah Vida and what is she doing at the opening of the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sarah doesn't rest well and is sluggish when she goes to school the next day. When she finally gets her locker open, she knocks a vase of roses off the shelf, shattering the vase. The sound of the glass hitting the floor brings back memories of Sarah's father's death. Sarah had been the one to find her father's body on the front steps of their home. He'd been held by vampires for weeks, bled slowly, and died a painful death. Sarah discovered the body and had been so enraged that she'd lashed out, striking a window with her fist. Her mother was furious at Sarah's lack of control. As punishment, Sarah's powers were bound and she was forced to heal as a human would, slowly and painfully. She'd also been forced to train rigorously and taught to control herself.

1. Sarah is having a flashback when she thinks about her father's death. A flashback is a literary technique often used to relay information to a reader. Discuss two incidences of flashbacks in Shattered Mirror, how they were written, what information they conveyed and why they were important to the story. Use examples from your life and Shattered Mirror to support your answer.

2. Discuss the ways in which Sarah seeing her father's body on the front steps affected her life, both mentally, emotionally and in her beliefs about vampires. Use examples from your life and Shattered Mirror to support your answer.

3. Do you think Sarah's mother was unreasonable about Sarah's response to her father's body? Why or why not? Use examples from your life and Shattered Mirror to support your answer.

4. Do you think Sarah's mother's response to Sarah's anger about her father's death helped her gain self-control or do you think it may have simply made her suppress her emotions? Why or why not? Use examples from your life and Shattered Mirror to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think the characters differ if a book is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. Explain the plot in Shattered Mirror. What type of plot is it?

Essay Topic 3

1. What is foreshadowing? How many incidences of foreshadowing are in Shattered Mirror? How does foreshadowing contribute to a book's suspense?

2. Discuss an example of foreshadowing in Shattered Mirror. Include why you believe it is foreshadowing. Give examples from the book and your own life to illustrate your answer.

3. How do you think most people react to uncertainty in their lives? Use examples from Shattered Mirror and your own live to support your opinion.

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