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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 Bex attach to Josh's Nike?

2. Where is Josh's family going on a Saturday evening?

3. Why does Bex's attention to Josh wane quickly?

4. What does Cammie enjoy about the Culture and Assimilation class?

5. What is the weather like on Thursday when the girls are doing their driver's ed class?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cammie tell her mother about Mr. Solomon's knowledge about her dad and what does her mother say about it?

2. Where does Cammie go to school and what type of school is it?

3. What happens to cause Bex and Macey to fight and who steps in to break it up and to mete out punishment?

4. What required class for this year has Anna Fetterman nervous and what change is there for the class this year?

5. What does the boy do who Cammie notices looking at her?

6. What does Cammie reveal herself to Josh and what happens?

7. How does Joe Solomon calm Mascey down as she is racing back to tell her parents she does not want to stay at Gallagher's?

8. What do Cammie, Bex and Liz go to Headmistress Morgan's office to ask about their suite and what is Morgan's reply?

9. How do the girls contrive to have car troubles by Josh's house and what do they do there?

10. What does Cammie's mother ask Bex and Cammie to do and what are they to ensure happens?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many novels, and perhaps a majority, of novels ends on a happy note. Discuss the following:

1. Why do you think many (most?) people want what they perceive as a happy or good ending to a novel? Explain your opinion. Do you? Why or why not?

2. What are three reasons to read fiction? Discuss each one in light of I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You and whether or not it fulfills all three, two or one of the reasons you mention. Give examples as to why I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You is or is not successful in fulfilling the reasons you discuss.

3. Do you think reading solely for entertainment is as good a reason to read as any other? Why or why not? Can any work of fiction or non-fiction, no matter how poorly written, enlighten, teach, stimulate thought? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

Essay Topic 3

I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You is one book in a series of novels involving Cammie. Discuss the following.

1. What are a couple advantages of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Use examples.

2. What are a couple disadvantages of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Use examples.

3. Do you prefer to read a standalone book, or a series of books with the same main characters? Explain your response.

4. Do you think it is easier or more difficult (or about the same) to write a standalone book versus one in a series? Explain your answer

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