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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. Where does Ava observe lynxes?

2. What baby name do Olivia and Braden decisively reject?

3. What collective plural does Olivia posit for reporters?

4. In what city is Asher’s arraignment?

5. In what city is Asher incarcerated?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ava have to rescue hikers?

2. How does the novel explain what a rescue call is?

3. What does an incarcerated Asher note missing?

4. How did Olivia and Braden initially meet?

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

6. Why does Lily think her mother is describing herself when speaking of people fighting hard to be happy?

7. Why does Maya take Lily to the fire tower?

8. Why does Olivia initially hesitate to involve Braden in Asher’s case?

9. For what reason does Lily assume her mother looks tired?

10. How does Olivia attempt to rescue the hive attacked by a bear?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what genre other than suspense might Mad Honey be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of Mad Honey. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

A lack of formal sectional—as opposed to chapter-by-chapter—division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

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