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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 is the narrator's punishment for failing in his duty?

2. What does the phone call entail?

3. Where is the event being held?

4. What phrase does Wade want on the narrator's epitaph?

5. Why has Michael come to get the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. What catalysts are responsible for the narrator rising early, reading the paper, and arriving on time to work?

2. How does Michael's reappearance change the narrator's demeanor?

3. What is the narrator's reaction when he sees his brother waiting on the stoop?

4. What kind of relationship did the narrator have with his mother?

5. What does the reader learn about Megan's past?

6. Why does the narrator leap out of the limo to escape his conversation with Bernie, the drug lord?

7. Why is it ironic that the narrator snorts cocaine behind the library?

8. What stunt is the narrator planning to pull at the fashion show?

9. What job does Michael offer to the narrator, and what are the implications of this job?

10. What does the narrator remember the most about Amanda, though he cannot remember what she looks like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrator is obsessed with Coma Baby.

1) How are the dilemmas of the Coma Baby similar to the narrator's own?

2) In his dream about Coma Baby, what role does the narrator take on?

3) How are Coma Baby's mother and the narrator's mother parallels?

Essay Topic 2

The narrator is obsessed with the missing person poster.

1) Why is he so affected by the missing person? In what ways does he feel similar to the missing person? Specially, talk about his relationship with his family.

2) If the narrator were to post a missing persons sign, who would be on the sign? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Do a character analysis of Alex Hardy. Include:

1) His professional background.

2) His medical background.

3) His relationship to the narrator.

Why does the narrator have such respect for Alex? Where is Alex by the end of the novel, and will the experience change him?

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