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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 the name of the Campanellos’ family physician?

2. Which of the following writes to an incarcerated Asher?

3. From which of the following does Olivia source bees?

4. What breed is Boris?

5. Where does Asher take his first dive into a pool?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Maya convince her parents to let her host a party after she loses a job?

2. What does Asher cite as evidence of Maya’s parents’ overprotectiveness?

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

4. How did Olivia and Braden initially meet?

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

6. Why does Olivia have trouble remembering Asher’s practice schedule?

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

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

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

10. What prompts Braden to buy a luxury car?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Mad Honey? By which groups? Why?

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