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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 Adianna see when she arrives at Nickolas's house?

2. What does Sarah figure she is going to have to do eventually?

3. The conversation between Nikolas and Christopher is about ________________.

4. Christopher says he has control over __________________.

5. Who is Marguerite?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is in Sarah's locker when she gets back to school?

2. How does Christine act towards Sarah initially and what makes Christine change?

3. Who is with Nikolas when Sarah arrives and what does she notice about the person?

4. What is happening in Sarah's blood?

5. What changes Robert's mind about taking Sarah to talk to Christine?

6. What happens when Adianna arrives?

7. How does Sarah get Nikolas to allow her to leave?

8. What explanation does Adianna offer Sarah about their mother knowing what has been happening with Sarah and what does Adianna suggest Sarah do?

9. About what do the twins argue concerning Sarah?

10. What does Christine say about her arrival at Nikolas's house?

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

There are a number of interesting questions raised by Shattered Mirror. Questions that Atwater-Rhodes most likely want readers to consider and think through carefully. Discuss the following:

1. What does the term "author agenda" mean?

2. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Atwater-Rhodes' agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Atwater-Rhodes' probable agenda concerning that idea.

2. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?

3. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?

4. Research the life of Atwater-Rhodes and see if/where her life may have influenced her writing.

Essay Topic 3

Nikolas pins Adianna against the wall while Sarah is dealing with the humans. Sarah agrees to put down all her weapons if Nikolas will set Adianna free. Sarah fully believes it means she'll die at Nikolas's bash but willingly gives her knives up anyway. She notes that the Vida line must go on and that Adianna hasn't done anything to disgrace the family, including befriending vampires. Sarah believes that Adianna is "a better Vida than Sarah could ever be." Adianna is furious when Sarah returns home. She says Sarah has forgotten that her role is to protect humans from vampires and that she isn't supposed to put herself into dangerous situations where she'll be killed over a personal insult.

1. Discuss the emotional reactions a human might have seeing other humans help a vampire attack a person including the feelings you think Sarah might have had in the situation. Use examples from your life and Shattered Mirror to support your answer.

2. Discuss what you think are the driving forces behind Sarah's sacrifice for Adianna. Include thoughts about why her love for Adianna might not be the only reason and what those other reasons might be. Use examples from your life and Shattered Mirror to support your answer.

3. Discuss what responsibilities Sarah's mother might have in Sarah arriving at her comparison between herself and Adianna. In few of the possibility that her mother is at least partly responsible for how Sarah feels about herself, do you believe Sarah's mother is partly responsible for Sarah becoming a vampire? Why or why not? Use examples from your life and Shattered Mirror to support your answer.

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