View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Shelby meeting her lover?

2. What does Delilah take with her when Josh and Leo take her to a psychiatrist for the first time?

3. On page 93, how long ago did Kate meet Bea?

4. On page 66, from what area code does Meredith get a text?

5. What does Meredith Dickey do for a living?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Delilah try to keep herself in shape and why?

2. What does Leo say about Delilah's first night at home?

3. Where is Delilah imprisoned?

4. Where does Meredith meet a potential new doula client in March after a yoga class and why?

5. What frightening texts does Meredith receive?

6. Who are Kate and Bea and how did they meet?

7. What happens ten days before Meredith and Delilah disappear?

8. Why does Josh come to Kate and Bea's place around nine p.m. in a rainstorm?

9. Whose body is found by the river?

10. Where is Delilah found the first night she is home and disappears?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Carly is kept in total darkness in a basement. Why is her treatment inhumane?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What points of view are used in Local Woman Missing? How do these points of view influence what readers know about events and characters? How does changing the point of view and then using several narrators help readers connect with and understand the characters?

Essay Topic 3

Everyone is supposed to treat Leo kindly at school because his mother is dead and his sister is gone. How is Leo treated at school? Why is he bullied?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 910 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample