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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. After following their target in Chapter Twenty, where does the group reconvene in Chapter Twenty-One?

2. Who is Viv's date to the homecoming dance?

3. How does Officer McNulty describe Malcolm in Chapter Eighteen?

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

5. According to Daisy in Chapter Twenty-Four, whom did she secretly love while in high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does Ellery get from Vance in Chapter Twenty-Two? How does she get him to give her this information?

2. What is important about the invoice discovered in Chapter Twenty-Six?

3. According to Officer Rodriguez in Chapter Thirty, who inspired him to become a police officer?

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

5. What does Nana tell Ellery about the broken figurine in Chapter Nineteen? What does Ellery think about the figurine?

6. What happens when Ellery and Malcolm arrive at the homecoming dance in Chapter Twenty-Seven? How do they gain entry?

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

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

9. According to Ellery and Malcolm in Chapter Thirty-Four, who is guilty of the hit-and-run? How do they know this?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Malcolm and Declan. How are they similar, and how are they different? How is each wrongly treated by the people of Echo Ridge, and what are the effects of this treatment?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Sadie’s contradictory characteristics. In what ways is she a good mother? In what ways is she a bad one? What does the novel say about the importance of motherhood?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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