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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 Sutton's father notice on Emma?

2. What does Emma hear about Sutton?

3. What have the police ended?

4. Why does Emma think of leaving town?

5. Why is Madeline reluctant to take Emma up on her suggestion to go to Bellisimo Secondhand?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has Sutton found and where does she find it?

2. How does Emma find out where Sutton lives?

3. What happens when Mrs. Mercer wakes Emma the next morning?

4. What happens when Emma and Nisha are handing out tennis outfits?

5. What memory does Sutton relate about swimming at a hot spring?

6. Where does Emma suggest they go at the Mall and what is Madeline's reaction?

7. Why does Emma suddenly believe Dr. Mercer knows she is not Sutton?

8. Why was Laurel angry with Sutton/Emma and how does Laurel indicate she's over the anger?

9. How does Emma end up in foster care?

10. What is Emma's current foster situation like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in The Lying Game.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of The Lying Game. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of The Lying Game. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of peer pressure in The Lying Game. 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 integrity in The Lying Game. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?

3. Trace and analyze the theme of death in The Lying Game. Consider not just physical death but change as death.

Essay Topic 3

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 The Lying Game is? Explain your response.

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