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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 Eve decide to do while the parents are distracted in Chapter 3?

2. What is a liability in the parent game?

3. How does Evie describe Val?

4. What does Kay do to Amy in Chapter 3?

5. What does Evie's mother do when she waves at her mother in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do the parents refuse to leave when the teenagers ask them to, in the aftermath of the storm?

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

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

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

6. Why does Shel handcuff himself to the treehouse?

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

8. What was a liability in the parent game?

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

10. Why are the parents in panic mode in Chapter 3?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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