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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 Malcolm do with the recording of the vandal in Chapter Twenty-Nine?

2. What object is found by Brooke's body, as revealed in Chapter Thirty-Three?

3. In Chapter Twenty-One, what does Ezra suggest Mia do in order to get information out of her sister?

4. Who attacks Malcolm in Chapter Thirty-One?

5. How does the murderer intend for Ellery and Malcolm to die in Chapter Thirty-Five?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Ellery and Malcolm observe Katrin doing at the homecoming dance in Chapter Twenty-Seven?

2. Who saves Ellery and Malcolm, as revealed in Chapter Thirty-Six? What tipped this person off?

3. What does Malcolm learn about Viv's plans for the anniversary article in Chapter Twenty-Three?

4. What happens when Malcolm attempts to join Peter's search party in Chapter Twenty-Three? How does Malcolm feel?

5. What information does Ellery learn about Brooke from the news report in Chapter Thirty-Two?

6. How does Ellery gain access to the office in Chapter Twenty-Five? What does she do there?

7. What shocks Ellery about the article published in Chapter Twenty-One?

8. What happens when the group follows Daisy in Chapter Twenty?

9. What does Ellery discover in Chapter Twenty-Eight? What leads her to this discovery?

10. What happens when Mia confronts Daisy in Chapter Twenty-Four? What do they learn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ellery experiences great change over the course of the novel. In what ways does she change and in what ways does she remain the same? By the novel’s end, is she better for these changes? Explain your opinion using examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Ellery finds herself involved in several conflicts over the course of the novel. Choose one instance of internal conflict and one instance of external conflict, and explain how these conflicts have an impact on the story and the characters involved.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the author’s choice to tell this story by using alternating perspectives. How does viewing the action through the eyes of both Ellery and Malcolm affect the story? How would the book be different if the story was told through just one perspective?

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