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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. During the meeting that takes place in Part Two, Chapter Thirty-Three, who is Theo's sole supporter?

2. According to Diomedes in Part Two, Chapter Twenty-Three, how does Alcestis feel at the end of the play?

3. How does Christian react in Part Four, Chapter Two, after he learns Alicia had written about him in her diary?

4. At the end of the novel, as the inspector reads from Alicia's diary, what does Theo do?

5. Following the attack on Elif, what happens to Alicia in Part Two, Chapter Thirty-Three?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Theo in Part Four, Chapter Fifteen, how does he know Alicia is lying to him?

2. How does Diomedes react in Part Four, Chapter Ten upon learning Alicia has spoken?

3. What does Diomedes believe about Alicia's revelations in Part Four, Chapter Fifteen?

4. According to Alicia in Part Five, Chapter One, what really happened on the night of the murder?

5. What happens as Theo continues to follow Kathy in Part Four, Chapters Sixteen and Twenty-One? How is Theo becoming increasingly unstable?

6. What happens when Theo follows Kathy in Part Two, Chapter Twenty-Seven? How does he feel?

7. What happens when Theo confronts Christian in Part Four, Chapter Two?

8. According to Alicia in Part Five, Chapter One, why did Alicia kill Gabriel?

9. What information does Barbie give Theo in Part Two, Chapter Thirty?

10. What happens to Alicia in Part Four, Chapter Seventeen? Who is held accountable in Part Four, Chapter Eighteen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Theo’s relationship with his father with Alicia’s relationship with her father. How are they similar, and how are they different? How did their fathers create the adults their children became?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the changes both Alicia and Theo experience over the course of the novel. How do they change, and how do they remain the same?

Essay Topic 3

The epigraph to the second section of the novel comes from Freud: “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways.” Explain how Freud’s ideas apply to both Alicia and Theo.

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