Pretties

Scott WesterfeldStudy Guide

By: Tiffany Ellis

Chapter 1 Criminal

1. Look up the word semiformal. (3) What does it mean?

2. What is a zambonie? (4)3. Why do the ice skaters have to wear bungee

jackets? (4)4. Who is “pretty much” the leader of the

crims? (5)5. What do you think calorie purgers are?(6)

6. What kind of surge (surgery) did Shay get? (9)7. Why do you think the hole in the wall won’t

make even fake guns? (10)8. Explain how the wall works. Why do you

think Tally couldn’t recycle her sweater from the Smoke? (15)

9. Is this Tally the same as the one we knew in “Uglies”? What is different about her?

Chapter 2 Bash

1. What is the oldest building in New Pretty Town? (16)

2. What costume was the person Tally kept seeing at the party wearing? (19)

3. What group is Tally trying to get voted into?(22)

Chapter 3 Lurker

1. What is a milli-Helen? (24)2. If Tally hadn’t been introduced to the Crims,

what group would she have tried to join instead? (24)

3. What was the catch to joining the crims? (25)4. Why did Tally push away from Zane and

through the crowd? (29)5. Who was in the Special Circumstances

Costume? (33)

Chapter 4 Fall

1. Why did Croy and Tally run at the beginning of this chapter? (34)

2. Why did Tally grab Peris and jump over the balcony? (36)

3. Where did Croy tell Tally he would leave the old leather pouch? (39)

4. How did the cut on Tally’s head affect her thinking? (39) (41) (38)

5. What news did Peris give Tally in a ping? (44)

Chapter 5 Zane

1. Who do you think the prince in Tally’s dream is?(47)

2. How does Zane get his hair so black? (51)3. How does Zane know Croy? (53,54)4. Who is Zane talking about meeting in the

Rusty Ruins and why do you think Tally yells, “Stop!”? (55)

5. When Zane kisses Tally, what name does she whisper?

Chapter 6 Bubbly-Making

1. Zane tells Tally not to eat and that your heart beating faster helps what? (61)

2. What does Zane mean when he says he needs Tally to be bubbly? (61)

3. What does Zane ask Tally at the bottom of page 63?

4. Why can’t Tally remember things from before the operation? (64)

5. What does Tally remember at the end of this chapter? (66)

Chapter 7 Valentino 317

1. Why wasn’t there a room 317 in Valentino Mansion? (72)

2. How did Zane and Tally get on the roof? (73,74)3. Where did Zane and Tally find Valentino 317?

(77) Describe what they found.4. Why does the word “key” seem weird to Tally

and Zane? (77)5. Where does Tally think the key to the padlock

is? (79)

Chapter 8 The High Tower

1. Why does almost falling keep Tally bubbly while climbing the tower? (84)

2. Why were some of the dates written on the walls of the shack weird to Tally? (86)

3. What did Tally find in the shack along with the letter? (87)

4. Who was the letter from? (87)

Chapter 9 Note to Self

1. What does Tally’s letter tell herself she must do? (90)

2. What does Tally’s letter warn herself might happen since the cure is an unproven drug? (91)

3. Do you think Tally and Zane made the right decision when they split the pills? (97) What use of foreshadowing does the author use to tell the reader it might not have been a good idea?