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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. For how long does Cammie sit on a bench?

2. What would Josh be doing if he were a honeypot?

3. How did Cammie feel when Josh called her just some girl?

4. What lie does Cammie tell the boy?

5. What about Cammie is considered cool at her school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Cammie's technique for tailing Mr. Smith?

2. What does Cammie think about for the next two weeks and how does she get an opportunity to encounter Josh again?

3. How do Macey, Bex and Liz help Cammie prepare for her "mission Josh," and what does Cammie think about the process?

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

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

6. What does Josh do that dampens Bex's interest in him and how does Cammie slip up to indicate she has met him before?

7. Describe the first day of covert operations class.

8. 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?

9. What do Liz and Cammie learn from the Dr. Pepper bottle that Josh had handled and why do they decide to go to his house that nigh?

10. How does Mr. Solomon upset Cammie? Why does Cammie choose not to mention it to her mother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the criteria for a successful novel should be different if it is written for adults versus young adults? Why or why not? Would most adults consider I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You a successful novel? What about young teens?

Essay Topic 2

Cammie decides she will never trust her friends again when they eagerly turn to Macey for fashion advice. Cammie thinks about Josh and how he made her feel like just another girl. Cammie does not tell her friends about Josh because it is nice to have something only she knows in a place where everyone knows her story.

1. Discuss the dynamics of a new teenager trying to break into an established clique of friends. How might the new person feel? How could the girls who know each other help the new girl? Why might Cammie feel a bit jealous of Macey? Use examples from your own life and I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You to support your answer.

2. Discuss reasons why Cammie might enjoy feeling like a normal girl given her situation.

3. Discuss reasons why Cammie might want to keep the knowledge of Josh to herself.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?

2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?

3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements in I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You. (The subplots may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not. Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not?you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?

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