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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. Where does Emma go after everyone is asleep?
2. What does Nisha insist Laurel help her do?
3. What does Sutton feel as she looks at Laurel's computer through Emma's eyes?
4. What excuse does Madeline use to leave Emma?
5. Where does Laurel remind Emma that they are going?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Sutton feel at the birthday party?
2. What does Madeline forget and what does Emma find out as a result?
3. What game do the girls play and what does Emma realize?
4. What theory do Emma and Sutton derive from Laurel's reaction to the note?
5. What does Emma find in her pocket and what does Nisha say about the note??
6. Why are Emma and Sutton both upset when Emma arrives back to the Mercer house?
7. What does Becky say to Emma in a dream and what happens when Emma wakes from the dream?
8. What do Emma and Garrett do and how does Emma discomfit Garrett momentarily?
9. What are the rules of the lying game?
10. What happens when Emma gives Laurel the note Emma found in Emma's pocket?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:
1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Sara Shepard.
2. What in Shepard's background may have helped him in writing The Lying Game? What may have influenced the way he depicts various characters and scenes?
3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.
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 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?
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