View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was on the phone with Emma when Emma was at the bus station?

2. Where does Laurel remind Emma that they are going?

3. What is eerie about Laurel's room?

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

5. What does the voice say to Emma when she is held fast in the kitchen?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Emma go for a sleepover and why is Gabby disgruntled?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Emma have a threatening encounter?

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

9. What happens when Emma gives Laurel the note Emma found in Emma's pocket?

10. What does Emma find as she searches Laurel's computer and how does Sutton react?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Emma holds to the hope that she and Sutton will have a wonderful reunion and that they'll become close. Emma has felt an emptiness because of the lack of personal long-term connections in her life. She has put a great deal of hope into the idea that Sutton will fill that gap.

1. Discuss Sutton and her habits and personality as to how you think a reunion between Sutton and Emma would be. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

2. Discuss what you know of Emma's life and why she might feel as she does in the above statement. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

3. From what is seen of Emma's life before she goes to Tucson discuss what some of the problems are with the foster care system and how you think being in foster care may have affected Emma. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,273 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample