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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 publication for which Janine Bailey is writing her exposé?

2. According to Vanessa on page 169, who has a vendetta against Strane?

3. What general safety tool is distributed to the female students on page 16?

4. According to Strane on page 4, what is the word “assault”?

5. How does Vanessa react to her first sexual encounter, as revealed on page 102?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Vanessa tell her mother about Jacob on page 135, and how does her mother respond?

2. Who is Ruby and what does she and Vanessa discuss about abusers on page 9?

3. Why does Jenny approach Vanessa in the winter of their sophomore year? How does Vanessa respond?

4. What club does Vanessa join? Why? Whom does she meet there?

5. How does Strane begin laying the groundwork for predatory behavior in the very first class Vanessa has with him?

6. Who testifies to Mrs. Giles that Strane and Vanessa have been having an affair? How does Vanessa respond?

7. Who is Jenny and what does the reader learn about her (and subsequently about Vanessa) on page 12?

8. What strange gift does Strane give to Vanessa when she first goes to visit him at his house?

9. What psychological phenomenon happens to Vanessa when Strane first initiates physical contact on page 45?

10. What does Vanessa indicate about her memories involving Strane on page 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Vanessa finds herself involved in several conflicts over the course of the novel. Choose one instance of internal conflict and one instance of external conflict, and explain how these conflicts have an impact on the novel and on the other characters.

Essay Topic 2

The antagonist of a novel is a character or force who works in opposition to the protagonist. Who is the antagonist of the novel? Jacob Strane? Taylor Birch? The Browick administration? Vanessa herself? What do you think? Make a case for that which you believe best fits the criteria of an antagonist in My Dark Vanessa.

Essay Topic 3

Vanessa experiences great change over the course of the novel. In what ways does she change and in what ways does she remain the same? By the novel’s end, is she better for these changes? What makes you say this? Explain your opinion using examples from the text.

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