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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 is Olivia’s Facebook password?

2. What is the name of Jordan’s first son?

3. In what city is Asher incarcerated?

4. Which of the following colleges is Lily’s first pick?

5. Which of the following queens’ hives is attacked by a bear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did it take for science to recognize that bees are governed by queens?

2. Why does Olivia regard herself, however hatefully, as proof of female frailty?

3. Of what did Jordan convince an elementary-school Olivia?

4. How does the novel describe the role of the forensic pathologist?

5. Why does Olivia write a recipe for cranachan at Asher’s trial?

6. What is Olivia’s favorite holiday ornament, and why is it her favorite?

7. Why does Olivia’s hometown celebrate Independence Day late?

8. What story does Lily tell on her first meeting with Olivia that meets with the latter’s approval?

9. In the novel, what does the Felonies First program mean?

10. What are the relative merits of having Asher’s coach testify on his behalf?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

If there is a principal antagonist in the novel, who is it? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Picoult and Boylan’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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