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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 remember suddenly?
2. What does Emma start to suspect as the girls play a drinking game?
3. Who was interested in Thayer?
4. What does the card say that Emma finds in the notebook?
5. About what does Gabby express displeasure?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when Emma gives Laurel the note Emma found in Emma's pocket?
2. Why are Emma and Sutton both upset when Emma arrives back to the Mercer house?
3. Describe the video Emma finds when Charlotte, Madeline and Laurel are choking Sutton.
4. What does Madeline forget and what does Emma find out as a result?
5. Why does Emma invite Madeline to the spa and what do the two talk about?
6. What does Emma think about in class concerning the photo of Laurel?
7. How does Nisha try to humiliate Sutton?
8. How does Emma have a threatening encounter?
9. What does Garrett say about Charlotte?
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
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.
Essay Topic 3
Emma spends more time on Sutton's Facebook page, looking for clues about Sutton's life. She finds a post there in which Sutton had included a picture of Garrett with a note that he was wearing the shirt Sutton bought for him. Sutton senses Emma's disapproval and is initially defensive but then is able to step back and look at it realistically. She wonders about her motives for choosing what Garrett wears and whether it could have been because she needed to control everyone around her.
1. Discuss some of the ways in which Sutton tried to control the people in her life. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.
2. Discuss what you think are reasons Emma might disapprove of Sutton buying a shirt for Garrett. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.
3. Discuss your ideas of what friendship is and whether you think any of the people Sutton knows are actually her friends. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.
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