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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 last name of Aaron Knodel's defense lawyer?

2. Which brother of Maggie's goes to court with her on the first day of Aaron Kndoel's trial?

3. What is the gossip in Sloane's town about Sloane's life?

4. In which country did Taddeo's mother work and live as a young woman outside of the U.S.?

5. Which niece of Maggie's is born when she is a sophomore in high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lina get back in touch with Aidan after so many years?

2. How does Sloane deal with watching her husband have sex with other women in front of her?

3. What does the therapist Lina and Ed go to tell them both that frustrates Lina and makes her feel terrible?

4. How does Sloane react when she and Richard and Karin have their first threesome?

5. How does Maggie react when she is demoted from varsity to JV soccer in high school?

6. What does Lina sometimes find herself asking Ed to try to make up for her husband's emotional and physical detachment?

7. What does Aaron Knodel's defense lawyer ask Maggie about in Part I on the stand that the state's prosecution lawyer objects to?

8. What does Lina tell her support group that she thinks created her emotional loneliness?

9. In Part I, where do Lina and Aidan frequently meet to fool around?

10. What does Maggie do in Hawaii that changes how her family views her when she gets back from the trip?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As you learned more about Sloane's childhood, adolescence, and core familial relationships, how did your understanding of her relationship with her husband and her willingness to go along with his desires to see her have sex with other men and women change? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your findings.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing Maggie's recollection of the aftermath of her relationship with Mateo. What impression does her family's and classmates' reactions to the relationship leave on Maggie?

Essay Topic 3

Consider Taddeo's choices concerning point-of-view. Taddeo writes Maggie Wilken's sections in the second-person, using "you" to refer to Maggie, while she writes Lina's and Sloane's sections in the third-person. Write an essay analyzing Taddeo's choice to use a different point of view for Maggie's sections.

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