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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 is canceled Thursday?
2. What does Travis do when he realizes his mother is home?
3. Where is Emma in Chapter 1?
4. Why has Laurel been angry with Sutton?
5. What does Emma try to tell Mrs. Mercer?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happened to Sutton over the summer?
2. What was Becky like when Emma lived with her?
3. How does Emma get a small scar on her chin?
4. What is Emma's current foster situation like?
5. How does Sutton hurt Laurel's feelings at the hot spring?
6. What does Clarice accuse someone of and who gets blamed?
7. What happens at Sabino Canyon?
8. Why does Emma go to the park and who does she meet there who ends up playing tennis with Emma?
9. What does Emma do at the police station?
10. What is happening to Sutton Mercer in the Prologue?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels. Discuss the following:
1. Compare/contrast the characters of Emma and Sutton. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Be specific and give examples.
2. Compare/contrast the characters of Garrett and Ethan. How do they seem different? Which do you like more? Why? Which one seems more of a well-rounded character?
3. Thoroughly analyze how three of the secondary characters in The Lying Game help drive the plot and what their contribution is to the storyline. Are any of the secondary characters unnecessary? Indispensable? Which of the secondary characters are likable? Which are either unlikable or even despicable? Be specific and give examples.
Essay Topic 2
Emma goes through posts on Laurel's computer and finds endless videos of pranks. Sutton watches as Emma goes through them, feeling sicker by the moment. She realizes that the pranks were cruel and that lots of people were hurt by them.
1. Discuss what you think are the motivations behind Sutton's pranks. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.
2. Do you think Sutton would have ever seen herself in life the way she does in death? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.
3. Discuss the various problems with practical jokes and why you think some people do them. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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