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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. Whom is Jason dating?
2. What does Michael offer to do for Deanna at work?
3. Why did Tommy's comment to Deanna when she was thirteen make such an impact on her?
4. Who is April?
5. What does Stacy confess to Deanna?
Short Essay Questions
1. How long has it been that Deanna's father has not really spoken or looked at her?
2. How does Deanna's surfer girl stories become journal entries?
3. What does Stacy suggest when she picks up Deanna at work?
4. How do Stacy and Jason react to Deanna's dream of moving out of home with Stacy and Darren?
5. How does Deanna describe Darren?
6. What does Deanna discover when she arrives at work and how does her boss offer his support?
7. How does Deanna respond to Lee's dilemma?
8. How does Deanna feel about seeing Lee and Jason together?
9. What does Deanna start ascribing to the surfer girl?
10. How does Deanna describe Stacy?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choose one of the following to discuss:
1. Choose two significant symbols and trace and analyze their appearance in Story of a Girl. Are these universal symbols? Would they be understood in any culture? Are there other symbols that would portray the same idea? What are they? Why do you think Zarr chooses the symbols he does?
2. Choose two important metaphors and trace and analyze their appearance in the novel. Are these universal metaphors? Would they be understood in any culture? Are there other metaphors that would portray the same idea? What are they? Why do you think Zarr chooses the metaphors she does?
3. Discuss Zarr's use (or lack ) of literary device (such as foreshadowing, clifthangers, deux ex machina, etc...), and how they add or detract from the story. Does Zarr use too many or too little literary techniques? State which of the five major elements of fiction the literary device is related to (style, character, plot, setting, theme).
Essay Topic 2
The narrative's thematic interest in honesty and vulnerability comes to the forefront in this section. The narrative here creates the sense that because Deanna has set the future course of her life in motion (i.e. discovering her capacity to be honest and acting to build on the sense of healing freedom that she feels as the result of being honest), there is room for other possibilities for fulfillment to emerge. Her cleaning her room is a metaphoric externalization / representation in her life.
1. Discuss the relationship between honesty and vulnerability. Use examples from Story of a Girl and your own life to support your answer.
2. What possibilities to you think might emerge in Deanna's life? Use examples from Story of a Girl and your own life to support your answer.
3. Discuss how cleaning her room is a metaphor for Deanna's changes in her life. Use examples from Story of a Girl and your own life to support your answer.
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 Sara Zarr.
2. What in Zarr's background may have helped her in writing Story of a Girl? 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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