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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. How does Evie describe Val?
2. Who built the house Evie's family and the others rent for the summer?
3. Who goes to the great house to get food in Chapter 4?
4. Which of the teenagers actually leaves the house for weeks at a time?
5. Who is Terry's mother?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Burl think is particularly dangerous that they all see around the great house in the days after the storm?
2. What is the provenance of the summer house, and how does Evie refer to the house?
3. What was a liability in the parent game?
4. Why does Shel handcuff himself to the treehouse?
5. Why is Evie surprised one of the mothers at the house gave Jack a Bible?
6. Why are the parents in panic mode in Chapter 3?
7. Why does Evie decide to get the teenagers' phones back?
8. What does James ask Evie's group of teenagers about that confuses them, and Evie is the only one to admit this?
9. How do the teenagers and parents know Alycia has survived the storm on the yacht?
10. What impresses, grudgingly, Evie about Alycia in Part I?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does David decide to sabotage the yacht's navigational device, and what plot development makes this news much more serious? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
What does Terry's overture to the soldiers and the Governor reveal about the teenagers' skills, independence, and/or frame of reference? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Red's broken leg seems to have been miraculously healed by the owner of the farm, and the owner also seems to have other omniscient, if almost supernatural, abilities. What do you think Millet is trying to communicate to the reader through the character of the owner? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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