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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. As the novel begins, Vanessa is compulsively reading what?
2. According to Strane on page 21, the world is made up of endlessly intersecting what?
3. According to Jenny on age 163, who once warned her about Strane?
4. Which of Strane’s classes is Vanessa taking during her sophomore year of high school?
5. What is the name of the boarding school Vanessa attended as a teenager, as revealed at the start of the novel?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to Strane following Vanessa’s conversation with Jenny, what would happen to Vanessa if anyone found out about their affair?
2. What happens to Vanessa psychologically during her first kiss with Strane on page 83?
3. Who is Ruby and what does she and Vanessa discuss about abusers on page 9?
4. What happens at the Halloween dance on page 62?
5. What object does Vanessa’s mother discover that confirms the nature of Vanessa’s relationship with Strane? How does her mother react?
6. What odd request does Strane make a Vanessa on page 133? How does she respond?
7. Who is Dolores Haze and what does she represent to Vanessa, as explained on page 76?
8. What club does Vanessa join? Why? Whom does she meet there?
9. What does Vanessa tell her mother about Jacob on page 135, and how does her mother respond?
10. Whose poetry does Strane give Vanessa to read while she is still his student? What is the effect of this poetry on Vanessa?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The role of power is a major theme of My Dark Vanessa. Choose three situations in which this theme is illustrated. Explain how each situation illustrates the theme of power, and evaluate what the author is trying to say about this subject.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing how the author uses characters and behaviors to develop and strengthen the murky issue of consent.
Essay Topic 3
The characters in My Dark Vanessa all highlight the idea the past is never truly past. Choose three characters and explain how each illustrates this idea, using textual evidence to support your claims.
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