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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 intern English teacher in Chapter 4?

2. What does Lee consider to be her real self, as she explains on page 175?

3. According to Conchita in Chapter 3, why does she have a single room?

4. When does Chapter 5 take place?

5. According to Lee in Chapter 1, where is Sin-Jun from?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Lee's first victim in Assassin and how does she kill them?

2. What does Dede discover in Chapter 1?

3. Why does Lee go to the mall in Chapter 2, and what happens there?

4. After getting her ears pierced in Chapter 2, how does Lee spend the rest of her afternoon?

5. What happens when Lee gets back to her dorm after surprise holiday in Chapter 2?

6. How does Lee describe Conchita in Section 3?

7. Where do Lee and Martha go in Chapter 3?

8. According to Lee at the start of Chapter 5, what characterizes the parents of wealthy Ault students? How does Lee’s family compare?

9. Who is the intern English teacher, and what accessory does she often wear in Chapter 4? What does Lee think about this accessory over the course of the chapter?

10. What does Lee think about racism at Ault? How does Chapter 4 further develop this theme?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the author’s choice to tell this story by using the first-person perspective. How does viewing the action through a first-person perspective affect the story? How would the novel change if the story was told through the third person?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you compare and contrast the world of Ault with the world of South Bend, Indiana. How does Lee define the similarities and differences between her new world and her original one?

Essay Topic 3

Lee 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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