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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. When does Deanna's mother visit her in Deanna's room?

2. Where do Stacy, Deanna, Darren and April go Sunday morning?

3. What does Deanna overhear between her parents?

4. When does Deanna have an encounter with a gang of senior boys?

5. What is Picasso's?

Short Essay Questions

1. How long has it been that Deanna's father has not really spoken or looked at her?

2. What does Deanna's mother want to do on Sunday morning?

3. About what does Deanna's father hint at when she sees him at home after school?

4. What does Lee ask Deanna's advice concerning Jason?

5. What happens at the first place Deanna and Lee drop off Deanna's resume, and what is Lee's take on the situation?

6. What happens when Deanna goes to a pizza parlor to drop off a resume?

7. What happens to Deanna on the last day of school three years after the incident with Tommy?

8. Who interrupts the assault on Deanna and how is he treated?

9. How do Stacy and Jason react to Deanna's dream of moving out of home with Stacy and Darren?

10. What does Tommy invite Deanna to do that reminds her of a time she felt drawn to him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrative's thematic interest in honesty and vulnerability comes to the forefront in this section. The narrative here creates the sense that because Deanna has set the future course of her life in motion (i.e. discovering her capacity to be honest and acting to build on the sense of healing freedom that she feels as the result of being honest), there is room for other possibilities for fulfillment to emerge. Her cleaning her room is a metaphoric externalization / representation in her life.

1. Discuss the relationship between honesty and vulnerability. Use examples from Story of a Girl and your own life to support your answer.

2. What possibilities to you think might emerge in Deanna's life? Use examples from Story of a Girl and your own life to support your answer.

3. Discuss how cleaning her room is a metaphor for Deanna's changes in her life. Use examples from Story of a Girl and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following:

1. Who is/are the protagonists of the story and why?

2. Who is/are the antagonists of the story and why?

3. Which 3 secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot?

4. Are any of the characters dispensable and which ones? Why or why not?

5. Do you think this is a character-driven plot or an action-driven plot? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Story of a Girl belongs to the young teen novel genre. Discuss the following:

1. Define the literary term "genre" and give several examples of three other genres in addition to the young teen novel genre.

2. Discuss two reasons why it might be useful to label a text by genre and two reasons it might be disadvantageous to label a text by genre.

3. What do you think is the difference between a young teen novel and a historical novel mystery?

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