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Elements of Fiction Quiz

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Directions: Be sure to restate the question as part of your answer. Since some questions have more than one part, make sure you answer what is asked or only partial credit will be received. You must write in complete sentences.

1. Who is the narrator of the text?

2. What is the name of the high school the narrator attends, and why did it have to change the name of its school mascot?

3. From which point of view is the story told?

4. List three of “The First Ten Lies They Tell You in High School.”

5. What is the basic conflict of the plot?

6. Where is the story set?

7. Name three of the cliques that the narrator identifies.

8. Who was in the narrator’s clan and what were they called?

9. What was the name of her ex-best friend and what does she later change her name to?

10. What is the name of the narrator’s new friend and why does she sometimes get on her nerves?

11. What are the names the narrator gives to her English teacher and her social studies teacher?

12. What class seems to be the most interesting for the narrator and what is her only assignment in that class for the entire year?

13. When the narrator stumbles upon the Senior Wing, she goes into a janitor’s closet to avoid her social studies teacher. While in there, she thinks to herself, “This closet is abandoned—it has no purpose, no name. It is the perfect place for me.” What does she mean by that and why does she feel that way?

14. What is the basic conflict of the story and what type of conflict is it?

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