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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 Clarice say Emma can do until after graduation?

2. Where does Emma go when she is five?

3. Who does Emma find at the park?

4. Where is Emma in Chapter 1?

5. Where are Sutton and her friends when Sutton has a memory?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at Sabino Canyon?

2. What does the note say that was left on the windshield of Sutton's car?

3. What "prank" is played upon Nisha?

4. What was Becky like when Emma lived with her?

5. What doesn't Clarice believe Emma is guilty?

6. What is happening to Sutton Mercer in the Prologue?

7. How does Emma get a small scar on her chin?

8. What does Clarice accuse someone of and who gets blamed?

9. Why does Emma doubt Garrett's feelings for Sutton?

10. What happens when Mrs. Mercer wakes Emma the next morning?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Emma spends more time on Sutton's Facebook page, looking for clues about Sutton's life. She finds a post there in which Sutton had included a picture of Garrett with a note that he was wearing the shirt Sutton bought for him. Sutton senses Emma's disapproval and is initially defensive but then is able to step back and look at it realistically. She wonders about her motives for choosing what Garrett wears and whether it could have been because she needed to control everyone around her.

1. Discuss some of the ways in which Sutton tried to control the people in her life. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

2. Discuss what you think are reasons Emma might disapprove of Sutton buying a shirt for Garrett. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

3. Discuss your ideas of what friendship is and whether you think any of the people Sutton knows are actually her friends. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of peer pressure in The Lying Game. 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?

2. Trace and analyze the theme of integrity in The Lying Game. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?

3. Trace and analyze the theme of death in The Lying Game. Consider not just physical death but change as death.

Essay Topic 3

Emma holds to the hope that she and Sutton will have a wonderful reunion and that they'll become close. Emma has felt an emptiness because of the lack of personal long-term connections in her life. She has put a great deal of hope into the idea that Sutton will fill that gap.

1. Discuss Sutton and her habits and personality as to how you think a reunion between Sutton and Emma would be. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

2. Discuss what you know of Emma's life and why she might feel as she does in the above statement. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

3. From what is seen of Emma's life before she goes to Tucson discuss what some of the problems are with the foster care system and how you think being in foster care may have affected Emma. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

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