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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. Which movement from Holst’s The Planets is Lily set to play?

2. What color are Asher’s eyes?

3. What newspaper do Jordan and Selena read while awaiting Asher’s verdict?

4. What mixed drink do Olivia and Selena take together?

5. Which of the following recipes is in Asher’s calculus notebook?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the process of Lily’s medical transition glossed by the surgeon who performed the surgical portion of her transition?

2. In the novel, what is a steamed cheese?

3. What does Asher note talking about with Ava upon first meeting her?

4. How does Olivia report having read Lord of the Rings?

5. Why does Jordan find himself envious of the prosecutor as he awaits Asher’s verdict?

6. Why, per Olivia, does honey prevent hangovers?

7. Why does Lily think the gender-distribution of orchestral musicians strange?

8. How does the novel describe the process of making honey simple syrup?

9. In which of Ava’s features does Olivia discern Lily?

10. What evidence of a skunk’s presence at her hives does Olivia have?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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. How might the novel be sectioned off other than it currently is? Why might those divisions be appropriate, based on the text and its contexts of composition and reception?

Essay Topic 3

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in Mad Honey? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

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