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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 the adult Maggie confides in at school about her experiences in Hawaii tell her?
2. How long were Maggie's parents, Arlene and Mark, married?
3. What does Lina tell the women in her discussion group in the first section focused on her in Part II that brings a chill to some of their interactions with her?
4. What is the last name of the prosecuting lawyer for the state in Aaron Knodel's trial?
5. Why does Aaron Knodel ask Maggie to come to his house in the second section of Part II focusing on Maggie?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Maggie dress and do her makeup carefully as she prepares for her first day attending the trial of Aaron Knodel?
2. How does Maggie react when she is demoted from varsity to JV soccer in high school?
3. Why do Sloane and Richard decide to start their own restaurant in Newport?
4. In Part I, what initially enchants Lina about her physical relationship with Aidan as a teenager?
5. How does Sloane deal with watching her husband have sex with other women in front of her?
6. What does Lina tell her support group that she thinks created her emotional loneliness?
7. In Part I, what does 15 year-old Lina want more than anything else?
8. How does Maggie confide in Mr. Knodel about what happened to her in Hawaii?
9. When does Maggie start to think that Mr. Knodel's texts are becoming a bit strange for a student-teacher relationship?
10. What happens to Lina in high school that changes the rest of her life and makes the rest of high school very difficult?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
At the end of the book, Arlene Wilken, Maggie's mother, finds herself unable to let the case against Aaron Knodel, and how it turned out, rest. Why do you think Arlene has such a difficult time accepting the outcome of Aaron Knodel's trial and of the state of her and her family's situation? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 2
The three women Taddeo chooses to focus this book upon are all white, heterosexual, and cisgender. Do you think Taddeo's work would have been strengthened if she had included more diverse female perspectives and experiences? Write an essay explaining why or why not.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing how Lina understands, and begins to deal with, her rape by several high school boys. How does Lina's perspective on this assault change as she grows from an adolescent into an adult? Cite specific references to the text to support your answer.
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