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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 was Alix supposed to be for Halloween?

2. Where was Alix originally supposed to go to college?

3. Where was Emira Born?

4. What does Kelley tell Emira about how he broke up with his high school girlfriend?

5. What does Kelley tell Emira about his high school girlfriend?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Chamberlain ask Emira to take Briar to the grocery store late at night in Part I?

2. Why does Alix tell Kelley she called the police on Robbier Cormier outside of her house in high school?

3. What are some important reasons why Emira likes her job looking after Briar so much?

4. How does Alix leverage her status as a working mother very deliberately and manipulatively in Part I?

5. What happens when the Penn State shopper starts filming Emira's interactions with the security guard at the grocery store?

6. In Chapter 8, what does Alix tell her friends was her most embarrassing moment?

7. What surprises Emira and her friends when Kelley shows up to the bar with them in Chapter 5?

8. How does Emira react to the security guard's questioning in Part I?

9. What pieces of advice do Alix's friends give her about how she should behave towards Emira following the grocery store incident?

10. How does Alix feel about her old housekeeper from her childhood, Claudette, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of Kelley's phrase, "I think it would be best if we went our separate ways, and if those paths never again connected" (95)? Why is the phrase so devastating to Alix when Emira intentionally uses it at the end of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How does Emira react to being caught in the middle of Kelley's and Alix's awkward reactions to meeting again after so long, and to each character's attempts to shape Emira's perception of the other? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Do you think Alix Chamberlain is capable of exploring her own mistakes and moral lapses in relation to her attitudes towards both Emira and Kelley? Write an essay explaining why or why not, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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