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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 Evie view the parents as in Chapter 1?

2. What news do Alycia's parents get that upsets them in Chapter 3?

3. What do Evie and the other teenagers put into a hat in Chapter 1?

4. How long after the rain stopped did it take for the flood waters to begin to recede?

5. Which teenage boy do some of Evie's friends seem to like in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Evie feel about her younger brother Jack?

2. What does Burl think is particularly dangerous that they all see around the great house in the days after the storm?

3. Why is David feeling so guilty about sabotaging the yacht in Chapter 3?

4. What was a liability in the parent game?

5. Why is Evie surprised one of the mothers at the house gave Jack a Bible?

6. What impresses, grudgingly, Evie about Alycia in Part I?

7. Why do Evie and some of the other teenagers go swimming in the storm water at the parents' request?

8. What is the parent game and why is it important to the teenagers?

9. Why do the teenagers run away with Burl?

10. How do the teenagers and parents know Alycia has survived the storm on the yacht?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which specific details and plot events of Millet's are the most effective in communicating the nature of the relationship between the parents and the teenagers throughout the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Evie strikes a hopeful tone for Jack at the very end of the novel, but Jack is very sick, the parents have completely abandoned the teenagers, and Evie has few options to try to find care for Jack. Write an essay exploring how Millet treats the theme of hope in the face of disaster and multiple fronts of hardship and struggle, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

How does the storm and its aftermath affect the teenagers' opinions of the parents? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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