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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. The story is told from the perspective of how many narrators?

2. What is Dolores' job?

3. What is notable about the child in #18?

4. Which of the following did not happen to the bus in the crash?

5. What does the character in #2 think she saw on the road on that fateful morning?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Nichole's new bedroom.

2. What are the reactions when Nichole lies about Dolores on the witness stand?

3. What does Dolores reveal about Billy Ansel's situation?

4. Who is Bear Otto?

5. Why do so many people tell Nichole she is lucky?

6. What is Wilmot Flats?

7. From whose perspective is Chapter 2 written?

8. What does Billy admit to thinking about as he follows the school bus on that fateful morning?

9. Describe Dolores' observations when she is seated in the grandstand.

10. What is Dolores' reputation and why does she take such pride in it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the irony of Nichole's being confined to a wheelchair as her long-awaited freedom from her father's sexual abuse.

Essay Topic 2

Explain why Mitchell dismisses Dolores and Abbott Driscoll as participants in a potential lawsuit. Aside from the obvious lack of assets, what else eliminates the Driscolls in Mitchell's mind?

Essay Topic 3

Mitchell Stephens says that he is fueled by anger, not greed. Do you think it is possible for an attorney to separate the two emotions? Explain.

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