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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 had started the truck driver drinking?

2. What was the name of the priest(s) that were conducting the interview?

3. In the first memory, how old was Lindsey?

4. What car was familiar to Vassago in the parking lot of the Blue Skies Motel?

5. At what point did Hatch first regain consciousness?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Hatch and Lindsey like Regina?

2. Why did Vassago frequent the Blue Skies Motel?

3. What was the purpose of the network of tunnels?

4. Who was Margaret?

5. Why did Vassago eat junk food?

6. What was Lindsey reminded of when she was being talked to in soothing tones?

7. Why did Vassago look at the Satan in the fun house with scorn and admiration?

8. Why did Lindsey learn how not to cry?

9. Why had Lindsey and Hatch gone to the lake?

10. Why was Nyebern apprehensive about reviving Hatch?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Jeremy's behavior while he was still a boy. What should have been done with him following resuscitation? Provide an explanation as to why this wasn't done? How might the plot have been changed if this would have happened to Jeremy instead?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss your feelings regarding the novel. Did it end in a satisfactory way? Research and explain what elements are carried throughout Dean Koontz's work.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the elements other than the supernatural forces that lend to the work being that of fiction. Explain the reality behind these points, and how they might have been written to lend more realism to a work of fiction.

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