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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. Which of the following does not appear onscreen when David clicks on the URL sent to him in Chapter Three and is taken to a web site with the view from a sky cam or street cam?

2. In Chapter Two, what does Sheriff Lowell tell David and Linda has been found in the woods near Lake Charmaine?

3. Who is hiding in the woods near Lake Charmaine because of his involvement in an explosion at Easter State University's chemistry lab years earlier?

4. Whose office does David get when he dials the phone number next to the mysterious initials in Elizabeth's day planner?

5. What is Tyrese Barton's relationship to T. J.?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss David Beck's romantic history with his wife Elizabeth Parker Beck.

2. What suspicions about David do Carlson and Stone reveal to Hoyt in Chapter Fifteen?

3. What has happened to Brandon Scope and what is Linda's tie to the Scope family?

4. Why does David ask Hoyt about the day he identified Elizabeth's body and what condition the body was in at the time, and what does Hoyt's evasiveness about these questions imply?

5. Why does Shauna hire Hester Crimstein, and about what does Hester warn Shauna in Chapter Thirteen?

6. Who is Jeremiah Renway, and what is his tie to Elizabeth's murder?

7. Who is Griffin Scope, and what are his ties to the community in which David lives?

8. What is David's relationship with Shauna?

9. What information does medical examiner Timothy Harper provide David in Chapter Twenty-One?

10. What evidence in the first five chapters of the book makes David think Elizabeth is still alive?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several characters in Tell No One turn out not to be who or what they initially seem: Elizabeth Beck, Hoyt Parker, Brandon Scope, and Griffin Scope. Discuss the motif of secrets and hidden identities in the novel. What do you think the author is trying to convey about hidden identifies? Cite examples form the text to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 2

Tell No One contains a number of instances of irony. Cite at least three examples of irony in the novel and discuss what you think the author intends to convey with each example.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the antagonists that David encounters in the novel: Larry Gandle, Eric Wu, Hoyt Parker, and Griffin Scope.

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