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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. Where does Evie finally find Jack as the storm preparations are happening?

2. What does James ask the teenagers that they are confused about in Chapter 2?

3. Who is Jen's younger brother?

4. Who is a germaphobe among the teenagers?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Evie decide to get the teenagers' phones back?

2. How does the parents' behavior grow worse in the aftermath of the storm?

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

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

5. What does Evie wrestle with telling Jack in Part I?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do you think it means that the parents show up in response to Sukey's call about the soldiers holding the group hostage at the farm? How do the teenagers feel about the parents' arrival to "rescue" them? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How does Millet treat the theme of sex from a coming-of-age point of view throughout the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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