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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 have Lia's teachers done?
2. Where is Cassie with Elijah?
3. What is Lia blamed for concerning Cassie?
4. When do Lia and Cassie meet?
5. What does Lia count as Jennifer makes suggestions?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do Lia's parents insist she see the psychiatrist that day and how does Lia behave during the session?
2. What does Lia know she should do when she is feeling negative, but what does she do instead?
3. Who calls Lia before she leaves for school after she has weighed herself?
4. How does Jennifer feel about Cassie's death?
5. Describe Lia's experience as she sees Cassie in the coffin.
6. What does Lia feel as she thinks about Cassie's body in the morgue?
7. Where is Lia at the opening of the novel and what is the news Jennifer announces?
8. What actions does the support group decide to make in order to honor Cassie, and what is Lia's response when her opinion is asked?
9. How do Lia and Cassie first meet?
10. Over what does Lia obsess after Jennifer and Emma leave the house?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss one of the following:
1. Trace and analyze the theme of growth in this book. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with growth? Why? What are some symbols of growth? Symbols of rigidity? What characters seem rigid?
2. Trace and analyze the theme of guilt in the book. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to feel guilty for his/her actions? Why?
3. Trace and analyze the theme of control in "Wintergirls". Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to need control? Why?
Essay Topic 2
At the movie theater, Lia cuts her hips with a razorblade, another form of self-mutilation. Cutting is a different type of pain than starvation. It is immediate, and many cutters feel the need to self-harm when faced with extremely painful emotion. Because they cannot control the emotional pain, they feel the need to control their physical pain, creating a physical outlet for what is happening inside them. Clearly, this is what is happening with Lia. The visit to the motel had a profound emotional effect on her but she does not have the coping skills to deal with her grief. She is too controlled to cry or ask for help so her pain needs a different outlet: a physical one.
1. Explain what you think are the reasons that Lia cuts herself. Use examples from your own life and "Wintergirls" to support your reasoning.
2. Do you think it is always necessary to control emotional pain? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and "Wintergirls" to support your reasoning.
3. What do you think are some of the coping skills a teenager might use to deal with emotional pain? Use examples from your own life and "Wintergirls" to support your reasoning.
Essay Topic 3
Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:
1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Laurie Halse Anderson.
2. What in Anderson's background may have helped her in writing "Wintergirls"? What may have influenced the way she depicts various characters and scenes?
3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.
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