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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 news does Nana tell Ellery in Chapter Thirty?

2. Ellery thinks that the broken figurine she examines in Chapter Nineteen best represents what?

3. According to Malcolm, how does Katrin appear at the end of Chapter Twenty-Three?

4. Who rescues Ellery and Malcolm, as revealed in Chapter Thirty-Six?

5. Who threatens Ellery and Malcolm with a gun in Chapter Thirty-Four?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Malcolm learn about Viv's plans for the anniversary article in Chapter Twenty-Three?

2. What does Nana tell Ellery about the broken figurine in Chapter Nineteen? What does Ellery think about the figurine?

3. What does Malcolm observe Katrin doing in Chapter Twenty-Nine? What does he do with the information?

4. What happens when Ellery and Malcolm arrive at the homecoming dance in Chapter Twenty-Seven? How do they gain entry?

5. What happens when Mia confronts Daisy in Chapter Twenty-Four? What do they learn?

6. How does Ellery gain access to the office in Chapter Twenty-Five? What does she do there?

7. Whom does Ellery come to suspect in Chapter Thirty? What makes her believe this?

8. According to Ellery and Malcolm in Chapter Thirty-Four, who is guilty of the hit-and-run? How do they know this?

9. What does Sadie tell Ellery about the night Sarah disappeared in Chapter Twenty-Two?

10. Who saves Ellery and Malcolm, as revealed in Chapter Thirty-Six? What tipped this person off?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the author’s choice to tell this story by using alternating perspectives. How does viewing the action through the eyes of both Ellery and Malcolm affect the story? How would the book be different if the story was told through just one perspective?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Sadie’s contradictory characteristics. In what ways is she a good mother? In what ways is she a bad one? What does the novel say about the importance of motherhood?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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