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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 is the name of Tara's bedder?

2. What color hair did Tara have?

3. When does Zoe call Mariana in Chapter 1?

4. What type of wine does Mariana remember that Clarissa would serve when she was tutoring her?

5. What are the six young women wearing who arrive with Professor Fosca in the college chapel for Tara's service?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mariana find outside her door in Part 2, Chapter 15?

2. Why is Professor Fosca not considered a suspect by Chief Inspector Sadhu Sangha?

3. How did Mariana meet Sebastian?

4. What do Veronica and Serena say about being with Professor Fosca the night that Tara was murdered?

5. Who is Clarissa Miller, and how have she and Mariana kept in touch?

6. How is Mariana able to speak with Conrad Ellis?

7. What is St. Christopher's like?

8. How does Mariana describe Professor Fosca as a speaker when she and Zoe attend one of his lectures?

9. What does Mariana learn about the postcard she found in Tara's room from Clarissa?

10. What does the journal writer remember that he and his mother would do when it was slaughtering time at the farm?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mariana is allowed to sit in on Julian’s psych evaluation of Conrad. Why does Julian believe Conrad is guilty and Mariana believe he is innocent?

Essay Topic 2

The climax in a novel is the highest point of tension and a turning point. What is the climax of the book and why is that incident the climax?

Essay Topic 3

Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based on his interpretation of life. How does Michaelides use artistic license to create the realistic background of The Maidens?

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