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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 Lucy NOT afraid of?

2. What does Frankie discover on Cissy's nightgown?

3. What does Ross believe about past lives?

4. What is another word that the townspeople called Abenaki?

5. What is Shelby's advise to Ross when he tells her he lost Lia?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ruby throw the card game with Ross?

2. What is the significance of Spencer locking Cissy in her room? What does that mean?

3. What excuse does Spencer give about his wife and child's burial?

4. What does the baby poop prove?

5. Who are the Abenaki named for? What does Az wonder about their name?

6. How does Az view age?

7. How does Ethan explain to Lucy about ghosts?

8. Why is Shelby bothered by words like kill or die?

9. What is Spencer's story about the night of Cissy's death?

10. What does the murder case of Cissy Pike get Eli thinking about? How does her death relate to him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does it mean when Eli's mother talked to him about "passing?" From the information in the novel, can you tell what this was? What was his mother trying to do? What price do you think Eli paid for his mother's beliefs? Was he also protected by her beliefs? How?

Essay Topic 2

What were the goals of Spencer and his father-in-law? Do you think they wanted to make the world a better place? How much do you think Spencer would do to impress his father-in-law?

Essay Topic 3

How is Meredith's work different from Spencer's?

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