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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 Enid's father refer to her and Rebecca as?

2. What does Enid order at Hubba Hubba's?

3. What does Josh give the homeless man on the side of the road?

4. When Enid shows up at Josh's apartment alone for the first time, he offers her a what?

5. What shocking suggestion does Rebecca make, in regards to Enid going to college?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rebecca respond when she learns that Enid wants to go to college?

2. Why does Enid take driving lessons?

3. What is the atmosphere like in Hubba Hubba?

4. Why is it ironic that Rebecca worries about "some creep" falling in love with her?

5. Why does Rebecca begin to get upset when Enid starts incorporating vocabulary words into her speech patterns?

6. Why is Enid ambivalent on politics?

7. Why is John Ellis going on a talk show?

8. What unusual family dynamic did Enid grow up with and how did it affect her?

9. Why does Enid try to track down a childhood record?

10. After Enid's fight with Rebecca, Enid's father does what to try and cheer Enid?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Labels play a prominent role in Enid's life. Whether using labels to define others or define herself, Enid is quick to categorize many aspects of her life this way. Write an essay examining whether or not this obsession with labels limit Enid's world, supporting your theory with examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay examining the deterioration of the friendship between Rebecca and Enid. Use the following questions as prompts.

1) At the beginning of "Ghost World", what was the relationship between Rebecca and Enid?

2) What were some factors that drove Rebecca and Enid apart?

3) Why did Rebecca and Enid choose to stop being friends, in spite of their history?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter Three, Enid complains that guys never ask her or Rebecca out. Write an essay examining the reasons Enid and Rebecca may not be attracting these invitations, citing examples from the text.

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