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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. How many kids are in Matt's family?
2. What is the name of Lizabeth's dog?
3. What style of architecture is Lizabeth's house?
4. What does the intruder take from Lizabeth's front yard?
5. What is the name of the cat at Lizabeth's house?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Matt's reaction to Lizabeth's forwardness at the construction site in Chapter 1? What does she think his reaction means?
2. Matt is quickly becoming a close friend of the family, having already charmed Elsie and Lizabeth. What does Matt do to gain Jason and Billy's affections?
3. Elsie's first impression of Lizabeth's house when she drives up is that Lizabeth still doesn't let reality interfere with her imagination. What is meant by this statement?
4. Describe Matt's house and the condition it is in when Lizabeth is first brought there.
5. Aunt Elsie is determined to stay up and see the "pervert." Is her (im)patience rewarded? How does she react to his appearance?
6. What does Lizabeth's house symbolize in the novel?
7. Matt and Lizabeth discuss the flasher and his MO after his second appearance. As they try to figure out who he is, they come up with a couple hypotheses. What do they surmise about the flasher during this discussion?
8. In an effort to find out who the flasher is, Matt and Lizabeth devise a plan to expose him. What does their plan entail?
9. What does Elsie's character add to the novel? How would it be different without her?
10. What possible purpose does the outrageous flasher character have in the storyline? What does he provide the opportunity for?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Which character serves as the protagonist? What about that person makes him/her the protagonist? Is there more than one protagonist? If so, who? Which protagonist is more important to the story line and why? Or are they equally important? If so, why?
Essay Topic 2
Matt brings Lizabeth to his house for the first time. She is shocked and a bit overwhelmed by what she sees. How does the condition of Matt's house parallel the condition of his life? What do the objects in the house represent? What do the lack of objects one expects to see in a home represent?
Essay Topic 3
Matt is fairly secretive about his past and childhood until the end of the novel. What do you think is the purpose of the author placing character background so far into the story? Why wouldn't she give the reader Matt's background in the beginning?
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