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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 purpose of the assembly the students attend in Chapter 9?

2. According to Nana on the way to the store in Chapter Eight, what could Sadie and Sarah do?

3. Where does Malcolm meet his brother in Chapter Seven?

4. What is the name of Ellery's twin brother?

5. According to Sadie in Chapter Four, which young man was very handsome when she was a teen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the reader learn about Sadie, the twins' mother, in Chapter One?

2. What is Brooke doing when Ellery and Malcolm discover her in Chapter Fourteen?

3. Who is nominated for the homecoming court, as revealed in Chapter Nine? What is the reaction to this news?

4. What tragic discovery do the twins, along with Nana and Melanie, make in Chapter One?

5. What is the third act of vandalism, as revealed in Chapter Nine? When does it occur?

6. Who is Katrin? What does the reader learn about her in Chapters Five and Six?

7. Where do Malcolm and Mia follow Daisy in Chapter Eleven?

8. Who is Sarah, and what does the reader learn about her in Chapter Two?

9. Who is Ryan Rodriguez? What does he do upon meeting the twins in Chapter Two? What does Ellery think about him?

10. Who is Lacey Kilduff? Who is Declan Kelly? What does the reader learn about them in the first two chapters of the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ellery identifies several suspects over the course of the novel. Choose three individuals she suspected who were eventually proven innocent. How does each illustrate the theme of suspicion?

Essay Topic 2

William Faulkner once wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Explain how the novel illustrates the idea that the past is never truly behind us.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing how the author uses characters and behaviors to develop and strengthen the theme of loneliness.

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