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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 is Elaine's favorite color?
2. What does Elaine stop to eat downtown at the beginning of Chapter 7?
3. What do the girls put over Elaine?
4. What do the two women Elaine hears talking about her at the Smeath house call her?
5. How does Elaine feel about the boys?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Elaine react to Jon's ex-girlfriend's anger?
2. Describe how Elaine and Cordelia are different in biology class.
3. Throughout the novel, who does Elaine think she sees in crowds or around town?
4. What does Elaine remember about her birthday after the incident with the hole?
5. How does Elaine feel when she visits the new school?
6. What lie does Elaine tell to cover her suicide attempt, and why?
7. How does Elaine feel about the woman who models for her first nude female drawing?
8. How does Elaine feel about Carol, Cordelia, and Grace when she sees them everyday after she starts sixth grade?
9. How does Elaine's mother greet her after she comes out of the cold water?
10. What is the major element of her life that Elaine comes to terms with at the end of the novel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss criticism in the novel.
1) What does criticism of Elaine's art mean to her? How does she relate to the press and others that view and criticize her life and work as an artist?
2) What role does criticism play in Elaine's childhood relationship with Cordelia and her other friends? Where is the line between constructive criticism and abuse?
3) Why does Elaine become critical of others in high school? Why do Elaine and Cordelia spend their time criticizing others?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the culture of women in the book.
1) How does Elaine perceive other girls when she is young, before she has girl friends, and what is her perception of her first girl friends?
2) How does the culture of women in the book differ from the culture of men? How is Elaine a different person with women than with men?
3) How does Elaine interact with women as an adult, and how does this relate to her early experiences with other girls?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Elaine's feelings toward Cordelia.
1) Why does Elaine always think she sees Cordelia, wherever she goes?
2) How is the reality of meeting Cordelia different from Elaine's fantasies about meeting Cordelia, and why?
3) Does Elaine have a realistic idea of what Cordelia is like? In what ways is Elaine's perception of Cordelia flawed, and in what ways is it accurate?
4) What are Elaine's positive and negative feelings toward Cordelia? Are the two women friends? Have they ever been friends?
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