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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. How many bees does Olivia estimate are in a pound of bees?

2. What flavor of broccoli does Asher note Lily reported in Happy Meals?

3. To what school does Ava want Lily to go?

4. What beer does Dirk chug?

5. What make of car does Ava drive?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ava cite as early evidence of Lily’s status as trans?

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

3. How does Newcomb describe his first experience testifying in court?

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

5. What surprises Lily about the Rainbow Alliance?

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

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

8. How does the novel gloss the term “chaser”?

9. Per Asher, what did Lily want to do with Yo-Yo Ma, and why?

10. How does the novel gloss the acronym SGCN?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that Mad Honey should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of Mad Honey do so for the present novel? How or how not?

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