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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 does Emma encounter Ethan again?

2. What happens when Sutton is turned loose from the chair?

3. Why does Emma jump out Laurel's window?

4. Why would know Emma was thinking of leaving town?

5. What happens to Sutton after she is taken from the trunk of the car?

Short Essay Questions

1. What game do the girls play and what does Emma realize?

2. What are the rules of the lying game?

3. What happens when Emma gives Laurel the note Emma found in Emma's pocket?

4. What does Sutton feel at the birthday party?

5. Why does Emma go to the bathroom and why does Sutton feel badly for Emma?

6. What does Emma think about in class concerning the photo of Laurel?

7. Who arrives to chat with Garrett and Emma and what do Emma and Sutton both think about the visitor?

8. What other things could Laurel know that might implicate her in Sutton's death?

9. What does Emma realize about Sutton and why?

10. What does Garrett say about Charlotte?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Emma goes through posts on Laurel's computer and finds endless videos of pranks. Sutton watches as Emma goes through them, feeling sicker by the moment. She realizes that the pranks were cruel and that lots of people were hurt by them.

1. Discuss what you think are the motivations behind Sutton's pranks. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

2. Do you think Sutton would have ever seen herself in life the way she does in death? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

3. Discuss the various problems with practical jokes and why you think some people do them. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

1. What is foreshadow? How many incidences of foreshadow are in The Lying Game? How does foreshadow contribute to a book's suspense?

2. Discuss an example of foreshadow in The Lying Game including why you believe it is foreshadow. Include examples from the book and your own life to illustrate your answer.

3. How do you think most people react to uncertainty in their lives? Use examples from The Lying Game and your own live to support your opinion.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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