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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 Bee say when Elgin tells her Soo-Lin is pregnant?

2. What does Bee get teased for as a child?

3. What happens to Dr. Kurtz's career after the intervention?

4. What game does Bee play in Part Six?

5. Who does Dr. Kurtz meet first at the Microsoft campus?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Audrey at the start of Part Five and why?

2. What is believed to have happened to Bernadette in Part Five?

3. Why does Bee want to go to Antarctica?

4. What is the plan for Bernadette's intervention?

5. What is Bernadette's reaction to the intervention?

6. In what ways does the Intervention not go as planed?

7. What is Bee's initial reaction to being aboard the Allegra?

8. What life changing information does Elgin reveal to Bee during the reconciliation?

9. When do Bee and Elgin reconcile?

10. How does Bee feel about Elgin now that Bernadette is missing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the 20 mile house symbolize in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and Contrast the characters of Bee and Bernadette. How are the mother and daughter similar? How are they different?

Essay Topic 3

Setting plays an important role in this novel. Antarctica, Seattle, Choate, Straight Gate, and Microsoft are a few of the vivid settings in the text. Select one of these settings and analyze how Semple uses setting to add to the novel. What does the setting you have selected symbolize?

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