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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 wrinkle hider does Annabel's mother use?

2. What does Bill do for a living?

3. What item of clothing does the person in Annabel's body complain about not being able to find?

4. At the end of Chapter 3, why is Annabel's body almost late for school?

5. Why does Annabel omit a description of her brother in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. List three of the four people Annabel thinks her mother might have switched bodies with.

2. How does Bill act toward Annabel when she asks for more money to go to the liquor store?

3. What do Annabel and her mother fight about the night before Annabel wakes up in her mother's body?

4. Describe in detail the lie Annabel's body gives Annabel about her English composition.

5. What does Annabel's mother look like?

6. What does Boris Harris look like?

7. How does Annabel feel about her father and how does the reader know that?

8. How does Boris feel about Annabel, and why does he feel that way?

9. What three items does Annabel make Bill for breakfast, and how are they cooked and served?

10. Describe the way in which Annabel does laundry and list at least five clothing items involved in the process.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Annabel is happy and excited when she awakens to find herself in her mother's body. Unexpected as it might seem at first to the reader, the opportunity to experience life in her mother's body is not disorienting or strange to her, but rather a gift from her mother. Write an essay that explains why Annabel considers the body switch a gift rather than a punishment, how Annabel communicates the mismatch between her teenage understanding of the world and the adult body she occupies, and how this contributes to the novel.

Essay Topic 2

As Annabel starts the laundry, Boris Harris turns up at the apartment door. In this way the two characters begin an interaction that is important to their relationship throughout the rest of the book. Write an essay that traces the relationship between Annabel and Boris as it develops and changes throughout the novel. How does their interaction and the growth in their relationship reveal characterization, theme or other literary element? Provide concrete examples to back up your assertions.

Essay Topic 3

The author uses point of view as an important literary element to allow the reader to experience the story a certain way. Point of view may stay the same or change within a novel, or even within a chapter. Write an essay that defines all the the point-of-view characters, and how point of view is used. How does this type of point of view contribute to the novel? Is this a good or bad choice for this novel, or is the point of view that this story is told in optional? Why or why not? Provide examples to support your argument.

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