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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 describe as the parents' hobby?

2. What kinds of animals do the teenagers routinely chase from the lawn?

3. What does Eve do because she is afraid of Jack being around all the water after the storm?

4. Who is Jen's younger brother?

5. What is the system of accounting that the teenagers come up with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the parents spend most of their time doing in Part I?

2. What is the provenance of the summer house, and how does Evie refer to the house?

3. Who do the teenagers meet when they take off for the island for a few days?

4. Why does Shel handcuff himself to the treehouse?

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

6. Why does Evie not participate in driving the tick-ridden deer from the yard?

7. Why are Jack and Shel capturing animals in Chapter 3?

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

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

10. What was a liability in the parent game?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Alycia's deal with her father - that he will not tell her mother about Alycia's dalliances with an older man if she will not tell her mother about the father's infidelity - tell the reader about the moral nature of these characters? Which other parents and children seem to make choices that are morally questionable? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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

What is the purpose of "The Game" in which all the teenagers try as hard as possible not to reveal the identity of their parents? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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