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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 one of the signs say that people are carrying when they converge on Danny and Pam in Chapter thirteen?

2. What is the dog eating in Chapter two?

3. What does Jack say in Chapter ten when his cell phone begins to ring?

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

5. Why does Rebecca say that it is impossible that someone at Maxton's is involved in the Fisherman murders?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is shown to the reader in Chapter two at Ed's Eats and Dawgs?

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

3. What does Speedy tell Jack in the beginning of Chapter nine?

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 does Wendell see when he gets to the crime scene in Chapter twelve?

6. What do Henry and Jack discuss in chapter eight when Jack is telling Henry of going to the police station to talk to Fred and the three boys that had been with Tyler?

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

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

9. What does Wendell tell Jack after Beezer has ruined the film in his camera?

10. What happens in Chapter seven when Rebecca follows Burny out into the hallway to tell him to go to his room?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Why is it that Judy was willing to kiss Jack when he returned from him meeting with Sophie?

2) What did Jack mean when he said he was in love for the first time after seeing Sophie?

3) What different kinds of love are seen in the story? Which of these seems to be the strongest?

Essay Topic 2

1) Do you think that Gorg was actually a crow or that he was being controlled by a creature on the other side like Burny and Mr. Munshun? Explain.

2) If Gorg had been a creature on the other side, given that Mr. Munshun was a servant for the Crimson King, what do you think Gorg's role would have been? Lesesr or greater than Munshun's? Why?

3) Do you think it would have been possible for Speedy or one of the other characters to exert control over someone like Munshun did with Burny? If so why did he not do this?

Essay Topic 3

1) What was Tansy Freneau's role in the story?

2) Why is Tansy not visited again after the destruction of Black House?

3) Do you feel that there is any chance that Tansy was restored to her original state of mind? Why or why not?

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