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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 age was Mariana when she began wearing contact lenses?

2. In Part 2, Chapter 17, what time does Mariana meet Fosca?

3. How old was Tennyson when he fled home and went to Cambridge?

4. When Zoe first met Sebastian when Marian was a student, how did Sebastian conquer Zoe's shyness?

5. At the end of Part 2, Chapter 17, what time does Fosca ask Mariana to have dinner with him the next evening?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where did Mariana grow up?

4. What does Mariana remember about the days and nights after Sebastian died?

5. Why does Zoe call Mariana in Chapter 4?

6. How does Mariana describe Professor Edward Fosca?

7. What is the main room at The Eagle like?

8. Who does Mariana meet on the train in Chapter 9?

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

10. How did Mariana meet Sebastian?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mariana decides that Fosca is the murderer. How does Mariana allow assumptions to influence her belief that Fosca is the murderer?

Essay Topic 2

Dialogue tags help identify who is speaking in a written conversation. What would happen if dialogue tags were never used to identify who is speaking in a written conversation? What are some common dialogue tags used to identify speakers in a written conversation in The Maidens? What descriptive dialogue tags does Michaelides use? How do those dialogue tags help readers imagine scenes? How do they add another layer of description?

Essay Topic 3

Setting is the place and time where a novel takes place. What is the setting in The Maidens? How does the setting evoke feelings or set the mood in the book?

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