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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 wonder about her and Laurel?

2. What does the alarm system read when Emma checks it?

3. Where does Emma go after everyone is asleep?

4. What does Madeline say when Emma asks her where Charlotte was on the night of Nisha's party?

5. What do the girls do after the electricity comes back on?

Short Essay Questions

1. What game do the girls play and what does Emma realize?

2. Why does Emma invite Madeline to the spa and what do the two talk about?

3. What does Emma think about in class concerning the photo of Laurel?

4. What are the rules of the lying game?

5. Why does Garrett become angry with Emma at the party?

6. How does Ethan and Emma come to be on a deserted, dirt road?

7. What do Emma and Garrett do and how does Emma discomfit Garrett momentarily?

8. Why does Emma tell Ethan the whole story about her being there?

9. What does Sutton feel at the birthday party?

10. What does Sutton remember about the scene at the hot springs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many novels, and perhaps a majority, of novels ends on a happy note. Discuss the following:

1. Why do you think many (most?) people want what they perceive as a happy or good ending to a novel? Explain your opinion. Do you? Why or why not?

2. What are three reasons to read fiction? Discuss each one in light of The Lying Game and whether or not it fulfills all three, two or one of the reasons you mention. Give examples as to why The Lying Game is or is not successful in fulfilling the reasons you discuss.

3. Do you think reading solely for entertainment is as good a reason to read as any other? Why or why not? Can any work of fiction or non-fiction, no matter how poorly written, enlighten, teach, stimulate thought? Why or why not?

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

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.

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