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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 Deanna let slip while talking to Stacy?
2. To what does Deanna's mother invite her/
3. What does Deanna overhear between her parents?
4. What is the name of the person Deanna's becomes involved with sexually?
5. What does Darren say to Stacy that bothers her?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Deanna's mother want to do on Sunday morning?
2. How does Deanna describe Darren?
3. What does Deanna discover when she arrives at work and how does her boss offer his support?
4. Who is April and how do Darren and Stacy support her and where do Darren and Stacy live?
5. How does Deanna transform her experience with Tommy?
6. What does Deanna start ascribing to the surfer girl?
7. What does Deanna write in her journal after Tommy invited her to do something with him?
8. Describe the incident when Deanna was thirteen and she felt drawn to Tommy.
9. What comment about church has Deanna thinking about Lee?
10. How does Deanna's surfer girl stories become journal entries?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Deanna finally speaks her mind to Tommy and to her father. There is clearly the sense here that Deanna is becoming both stronger and more courageous, less self-pitying (a state that some of her journal entries and narration tend to suggest) and less willing to both perceive herself as, and act as, a victim. She is, in short, clearly both ready and willing to move on from her past, a situation that is clearly a contrast to both Darren and her father, and which, as later events confirm, serves to inspire both of them to at least a degree of both letting go and moving on. Deanna is, in short, both a hero in her own life and, as a result, an inspiration in the lives of others.
1. Discuss the ways in which Deanna seems to be changing after speaking her mind to Tommy. Use examples from Story of a Girl and your own life to support your answer.
2. Discuss the reason for which Deanna might see herself as a victim. Use examples from Story of a Girl and your own life to support your answer.
3. Discuss why or why not Deanna might be considered a heroine. Use examples from Story of a Girl and your own life to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the following:
1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?
2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of Story of a Girl, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?
3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements in Story of a Girl. (The subplots may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not. Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:
1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Sara Zarr.
2. What in Zarr's background may have helped her in writing Story of a Girl? What may have influenced the way she depicts various characters and scenes?
3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.
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