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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 religion does Dede practice, as revealed in Chapter 2?

2. What does Dede do for Lee when Lee returns to her room at the end of Chapter 2?

3. What sport does Lee start playing in Chapter 3?

4. According to Lee in Chapter 1, whose idea was it for Lee to attend Ault?

5. When does Chapter 5 take place?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss two ways Lee’s parents embarrass her during the parents’ weekend at Ault. How does Lee react?

3. What does Lee discover in her home at the end of Chapter 5? What does it make her realize?

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

5. Why does Aspeth get in trouble during her English presentation? How does she respond? What does she later reveal to Lee?

6. What happens with Lee's presentation in Chapter 1?

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

8. How does Lee’s family come to view the weekend that transpires in Chapter 5? How do they refer to it, and how does Lee come to view it?

9. What does Lee discover about the thief at the end of Chapter 1?

10. What does Dede discover in Chapter 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the game of Assassin and the role it plays, both for Lee individually and for the Ault community as a whole.

Essay Topic 2

Appearances in Prep can be deceiving. How do appearances differ from reality in this novel? Discuss three characters, objects, or situations and how this idea applies to each.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining the significance of the title of the novel, Prep. How does the title reflect the main characters? How does the title reflect the novel’s themes and conflicts? How does the title’s meaning change over the course of the novel?

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