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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 does Deanna sometimes feel when Lee and Jason are together?

2. What does Deanna believe at the first place she stops with Lee?

3. What triggers a surge of fond memories for Deanna that Sunday morning?

4. What does Deanna decide not to tell Jason about her job?

5. Why is Deanna's father angry with her?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Deanna transform her experience with Tommy?

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

4. What happens with Deanna when she is thirteen?

5. What does Deanna discover when she arrives at work and how does her boss offer his support?

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

7. How does Deanna describe Stacy?

8. What does Deanna write in her journal after Tommy invited her to do something with him?

9. How does Deanna feel about seeing Lee and Jason together?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think Story of a Girl is? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 2

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 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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