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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. Who does Corbin ask Shay to have nothing to do with in Part 1 Chapter 12?

2. What does Shay prepare for at the beginning of Part 1 Chapter 19?

3. What does Shay inadvertently reveal to Thora K in Part 1 Chapter 17?

4. What does Shay learn about the Maddon twins' father?

5. What does Dr. Seaton tell Shay following childbirth?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Shay and her family feel about her impending nuptials in Part I Chapter 2?

2. What does Shay reveal to Thora K in Part I Chapter 17?

3. What happens when Shay briefly inhabits her own body in Part I Chapter 15?

4. What does Shay learn about the Maddon twins in Part I Chapter 11?

5. What happens to John McCabe in Part I Chapter 14?

6. How is the news of Brandy's body's pregnancy received?

7. Who is Grandma Bran, and how does she react when she sees the mirror in Part I Chapter 1?

8. What does Shay observe when she awakens in Part I Chapter 3?

9. What does Shay wonder about women in Part I Chapter 17?

10. What do Shay and Thora K envision in Part I Chapter 18?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the mirror? What powers does the mirror possess? How does the mirror impact the lives of the novel's characters? Discuss the mirror as the novel's antagonist.

Essay Topic 2

What is the genre of the novel? What are elements commonly found in this type of novel? What are some other examples of works of this genre? What similarities do these works share with the novel "The Mirror"?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the motif of motherhood in the novel "The Mirror". How does motherhood change Shay? How does she cope with mothering her own mother, Rachael?

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