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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. In Chapter 69, who was to get the pearls?

2. At the end of Chapter 44, what does Cadence give Gat?

3. In Chapter 49, who does Cadence learn paid for her trip to Europe?

4. At the end of Chapter 69, what did Penny do?

5. In Chapter 40, who does the first grandchild in the story marry?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 59, how does Johnny describe family relationships at the end of Chapter 59?

2. In Chapter 82, what does Cadence decide she should have done two summers ago?

3. In Chapter 67, what did Harris want Johnny to do and how did he threaten Johnny?

4. What does Cadence do with the Liars in Chapter 54?

5. Why do Mirren and Cadence have to hurry back to Cuddledown in Chapter 44?

6. In Chapter 58, what does Cadence remember doing and what does she realize about New Clairmont?

7. In Chapter 45, what do the Liars discover and what do they do there?

8. In Chapter 69, what did Harris say about the Sinclairs and his daughters?

9. In Chapter 72, what plan did the Liars come up with when everyone but they were off the island?

10. In Chapter 51, what does Cadence think about her pills?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cadence, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat decided to burn down Clairmont. Why did they decide to burn down the house? What did the house symbolize to them? What problems did they think would be eliminated by burning down the house?

Essay Topic 2

The novel mostly takes place on Beechwood Island. How would you describe the various settings in the novel? How does the setting of the island take on the role of character? How does the setting influence characters and who they are?

Essay Topic 3

The Sinclairs all have their own private ways of dealing with grief. What are the family grieving for? How is their grief for Tipper and for the cousins and Gat different? How do the various characters—Cadence, her aunts, her grandfather, and her younger cousins—deal with grief? Is the way that they are coping healthy or unhealthy?

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