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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 plans does Madeline reveal concerning Nisha?

2. What does Emma wonder about concerning Sutton while on the way to school?

3. What does Sutton want to know?

4. Where does Emma go when she is five?

5. Where are Sutton and her friends when Sutton has a memory?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who does Emma meet outside and what does Sutton vaguely recall about the young man?

3. What does Clarice accuse someone of and who gets blamed?

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

5. How does Emma get a small scar on her chin?

6. What does Emma realize when she is in Sutton's room and why does she feel guilty?

7. Why does Emma doubt Garrett's feelings for Sutton?

8. What "prank" is played upon Nisha?

9. What does Emma hope about Sutton as Emma is being dragged to the party and how does Emma try to contact Sutton?

10. What does the note say that was left on the windshield of Sutton's car?

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 The Lying Game is? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 2

Emma's childhood was lived with her erratic mother, Becky. Becky had often been fun-loving, shouting answers to the puzzles on "Wheel of Fortune," and other times spending hours crying on the couch. Sometimes Becky took Emma shopping, buying her "two of everything." When Emma questioned the reason for two pairs of the same kind of shoe, her mother would say it was in case one got dirty.

1. Discuss, in depth, how you think such inconsistent behavior by a mother would affect a child? Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

2. Discuss your ideas about guilt and its affect on people and relate these ideas to the fact of Becky buying two of everything. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

3. Do you think, given Becky's problems, Emma was better off in foster care? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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