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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. In Chapter 16, what does Chubs' father do for a living?

2. In Chapter 22, who does Clancy say added a frequency to the calm control the day Ruby was incapacitated from the White Noise?

3. In Chapter 17, what does Chubs say that Jack Fields' father did?

4. In Chapter 22, what does Clancy want Olivia to plan to get on the next hit?

5. In Chapter 22, who is the first to be bitten by a tick?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 28, who comes to East River, and who did Clancy expect would come?

2. In Chapter 17, who was Jack Fields?

3. In Chapter 30, what happens when Chubs tries to deliver Jack's letter to his father?

4. In Chapter 22, what are the requirements for being allowed to leave the camp?

5. In Chapter 24, why does Chubs get angry at Liam?

6. In Chapter 20, what does Chubs keep to take with him and what does he leave?

7. In Chapter 26, what does Clancy tell Ruby?

8. In Chapter 24, why is Zu in a hurry?

9. In Chapter 23 when Ruby is training with Clancy, how much does she see Zu, Chubs, and Liam?

10. In Chapter 21, what does Ruby observe when they get to the camp?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ruby is ten when the story begins and 16 at the end of the novel. How does Ruby mature and develop emotionally in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Chubs comments that Liam is into “Pollyanna shtick” (328). What does Chubs mean when he comments that Liam is into Pollyanna stuff? What is revealed about optimism and pessimism in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Some parents hide their special children and others turn them in. What seem to be reasons why some parents hide their children and others turn them in? What is revealed about fear through the decisions that some parents make to turn their children in?

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