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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. Who emerges from a hiking trail as Emma and Garrett are talking?

2. What does Ethan tell Madeline, Laurel and Charlotte after they almost kill Sutton?

3. What do Emma and Sutton wonder as the person who stops for a brief chat goes on?

4. What does the card say that Emma finds in the notebook?

5. Who is searching for Sutton?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Emma find in her pocket and what does Nisha say about the note??

2. What does Becky say to Emma in a dream and what happens when Emma wakes from the dream?

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

4. What does Garrett say about Charlotte?

5. What theory do Emma and Sutton derive from Laurel's reaction to the note?

6. What does Madeline forget and what does Emma find out as a result?

7. What does Emma figure Laurel could have done as far as luring Emma there and the note on Sutton's car?

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

9. Why does Emma go to the bathroom and why does Sutton feel badly for Emma?

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

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

There are a number of interesting questions raised by The Lying Game. Questions that Shepard most likely want readers to consider and think through carefully. Discuss the following:

1. What does the term "author agenda" mean?

2. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Shepard' agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Shepard' probable agenda concerning that idea.

3. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?

4. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?

5. Research the life of Shepard and see if/where his life may have influenced his writing.

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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