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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 Fred tell Jack about Judy?

2. What flies toward Jack in his waking dreams as they are described in Chapter four?

3. In Chapter four, what had the voice said to Jack that woke him up that morning?

4. What does Henry say about the song that Burny requested while at the Strawberry Festival, 'I Can't Get Started'?

5. What does Jack do with the robin's egg that he finds in the ash tray of his pick up truck in Chapter four?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene in Chapter four where Jack and Dale are putting up paintings.

2. What happens in Chapter seven when Henry begins playing for the residents at Maxton's?

3. What does Dale tell Jack in Chapter ten when he calls Jack?

4. Describe the conversation that Rebecca, Peter Wexler, and Henry have in chapter seven when Peter says that there was another little boy taken from outside of Maxton's.

5. What happens outside of Ed's Eats and Dawgs when Henry realizes that someone is taking his picture?

6. What does Wendell want to get from Irma's crime scene as he heads out to Ed's Eats and Dawgs?

7. In Chapter one, what is explained about Chipper's current situations in his life?

8. Describe the scene at Irma Freneau's mother's house in Chapter fifteen?

9. Describe the conversation that Jack and Wendell Green had that Jack recalls in Chapter four while cooking an omelet.

10. What happens to Judy in Chapter five?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) How would you describe Henry Leyden?

2) What was the purpose of Henry's multiple radio personalities?

3) Why did Henry use those personalities to give Jack the final message before he died?

Essay Topic 2

1) Do you think that Dale truly gives up his position as police chief? Explain.

2) What do you think is the difference between a police man and a coppice man?

3) How would you have described Speedy's involvement in the story? Do you think he is a coppice man like Jack? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

1) Speculate on the reasons that Sonny and Kaiser Bill left when Mouse was sick.

2) Do you think that Mouse would have left if it had been Sonny or Kaiser Bill that had been injured? Why or why not?

3) Was Mouse's death necessary in the story? Why or why not?

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