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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. Where do Sarah, Nissa, and Christopher go?

2. What does Sarah ask Robert?

3. What does Nikolas begin to carve down Sarah's arm?

4. What does Kaleo do to Sarah?

5. Why does Sarah say she has to break off contact with Christopher?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Sarah expelled from her last school?

2. What does Nissa ask Sarah at school on Monday? What does Nissa say about Christopher?

3. How does Sarah prepare for the dance and why does she do so?

4. What does Kaleo say to Sarah when she becomes aware of his presence in the room?

5. What happened to Sarah's father? How does Sarah respond to his death?

6. What had happened to Christine?

7. Why is Sarah uneasy when she is dancing with Christopher and what does she do?

8. Why does Sarah want to stay at SingleEarth and what is the condition under which she may do so?

9. What does Sarah realize about Robert and what does she ask him?

10. Who is Sarah Vida and what is she doing at the opening of the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Nikolas pins Adianna against the wall while Sarah is dealing with the humans. Sarah agrees to put down all her weapons if Nikolas will set Adianna free. Sarah fully believes it means she'll die at Nikolas's bash but willingly gives her knives up anyway. She notes that the Vida line must go on and that Adianna hasn't done anything to disgrace the family, including befriending vampires. Sarah believes that Adianna is "a better Vida than Sarah could ever be." Adianna is furious when Sarah returns home. She says Sarah has forgotten that her role is to protect humans from vampires and that she isn't supposed to put herself into dangerous situations where she'll be killed over a personal insult.

1. Discuss the emotional reactions a human might have seeing other humans help a vampire attack a person including the feelings you think Sarah might have had in the situation. Use examples from your life and Shattered Mirror to support your answer.

2. Discuss what you think are the driving forces behind Sarah's sacrifice for Adianna. Include thoughts about why her love for Adianna might not be the only reason and what those other reasons might be. Use examples from your life and Shattered Mirror to support your answer.

3. Discuss what responsibilities Sarah's mother might have in Sarah arriving at her comparison between herself and Adianna. In few of the possibility that her mother is at least partly responsible for how Sarah feels about herself, do you believe Sarah's mother is partly responsible for Sarah becoming a vampire? Why or why not? Use examples from your life and Shattered Mirror to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of growth in Shattered Mirror. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with growth? Why? What are some symbols of growth? Symbols of rigidity? What characters seem rigid? How does the reader see the growth in Sarah?

2. Trace and analyze the theme of courage in Shattered Mirror. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why? What characters might be foolhardy because of courage?

3. Trace and analyze the theme of change in Shattered Mirror. What kinds of changes occur? What are the changes in the main characters mentally, emotionally, and physically? What changes occur in the main character's life? How do the characters handle the change in their lives?

Essay Topic 3

Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:

1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Amelia Atwater-Rhodes.

2. What in Atwater-Rhodes's background may have helped her in writing Shattered Mirror? What may have influenced the way she depicts various characters and scenes?

3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.

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