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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 does Carlos say means your cockle's up?

2. From what film does the character Harry Lime come?

3. What does Stuart say he does for a living?

4. What does Rhiannon say Robert is a child of?

5. What does Joe do for a living?

Short Essay Questions

1. What frustrations does Ginny vent when she goes on a walk with Wendy?

2. Why does Ginny like Rhiannon's parents so much?

3. Why does Ginny get so upset at the party?

4. How does the author describe Harry and Angie Lime?

5. What problem does Helen have with her father?

6. What does Andy say he identifies as?

7. Why did Ginny think the people at her school were stupid?

8. Why does Ginny think Joe was sent to prison?

9. What does Ginny know about social workers?

10. How does the author describe Andy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look at the structure of the book.

How does the author use character and dialogue to drive the narrative?

Discuss elements of the narrative structure; Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

Essay Topic 2

How does Ginny use art to cope with her problems? How does Ginny's idea art develop through the book and what does this symbolize in terms of her own character and what she has learned?

Essay Topic 3

How does it affect both Robert and Ginny when they hear their Grandparents are racist? In what way does it show the difference between Ginny and Robert? What kind of environment would Ginny's Grandparents been brought up in to have such beliefs?

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