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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. Who makes the pizza Lee and Deanna share?
2. When does Deanna's mother visit her in Deanna's room?
3. About what does Lee ask Deanna's advice?
4. How do Lee and Deanna bond?
5. Why is Darren surprised when Deanna arrives home?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Deanna describe Stacy?
2. What happens with Deanna when she is thirteen?
3. What does Deanna write in her journal after Tommy invited her to do something with him?
4. What does Deanna's mother want to do on Sunday morning?
5. How does Deanna transform her experience with Tommy?
6. How does Deanna describe Darren?
7. What does Deanna say about April and what is Deanna's fantasy concerning April and April's parents?
8. What does Stacy suggest when she picks up Deanna at work?
9. What does Tommy invite Deanna to do that reminds her of a time she felt drawn to him?
10. What happens to Deanna on the last day of school three years after the incident with Tommy?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss one of the following:
1. Trace and analyze the theme of growth in Story of a Girl. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with growth? Why? What are some symbols of growth? Symbols of rigidity? What characters seem rigid?
2. Trace and analyze the theme of courage in Story of a Girl. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?
3. Trace and analyze the theme of honesty in Story of a Girl. How has dishonesty hurt Deanna's life? What about other characters? How does honesty help Deanna's life? Has dishonesty played a part in Deanna's problems? How does dishonesty hurt Deanna and her father's relationship?
Essay Topic 2
1. What is foreshadowing? How many incidences of foreshadowing are in Story of a Girl? How does foreshadowing contribute to a book's suspense?
2. Discuss an example of foreshadowing in Story of a Girl including why you believe it is foreshadowing. Include 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 Story of a Girl and your own life to support your opinion.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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