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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. Where is Rodion's wife?

2. What kind of experience is Odd looking for in a child?

3. What does Rodion confess to being?

4. Who comes in the vehicle with Odd when he's driving to the Abbey?

5. What is inside Rodion's case?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the brothers do on the way back to the school and what comes out of the storm?

2. How does Odd decide to leave, who picks him up and what actually happens instead?

3. What was Brother John's response to his fiance pregnancy and the birth of his son?

4. What does Odd do when the creature comes out of Timothy's body? What does the creature do?

5. What does Brother Knuckle do about the ice creature?

6. What does Odd do when he leaves Justine and goes to Jacob's room?

7. What is the answer to the riddle of the three portraits on Mother Superior's wall?

8. What happens when Brother Maxwell is fighting the ice creatures?

9. What does Odd tell Rodion when he reaches him and what does Rodion tell Odd?

10. How does Brother Timothy appear to Odd?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many events that happen in BROTHER ODD are foreshadowed by previous events and/or signs. Discuss the following:

1. Define the literary term "foreshadow."

2. Why would an author use foreshadowing? Do you think it adds or detracts from your experience as a reader? Explain.

3. Trace and analyze five instances of foreshadowing in BROTHER ODD. Match up what is mentioned earlier and what it foreshadows. Did you guess that each instance of foreshadowing was a "heads up" of something to come? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

BROTHER ODD is one book in a series of novels involving Odd Thomas and the other characters. Discuss the following.

1. What are two advantages of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Illustrate your statements with details from the text.

2. What is a disadvantage of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Illustrate your statements with details from the text.

3. Do you prefer to read a stand alone book, or a series of books with the same main characters? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 3

Some aspects of the metaphysical is in every Odd Thomas books. Discuss the following:

1. Define the term "metaphysical."

2. Discuss what elements of the metaphysical appear in the Odd Thomas books, e. g.: What elements of Odd Thomas seem outside the five senses? Give examples. What things that happen cannot be proved by normal scientific methods?

3. What challenges are there in reading a novel that is based in metaphysics?

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