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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 does Shay decide in the Interim?

2. What destroys Main Street in Part 1 Chapter 18?

3. Who is Corbin?

4. What is Shay ordered to throw away?

5. Where is Corbin and Tim when Main Street is destroyed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the news of Brandy's body's pregnancy received?

2. What happens when Shay briefly inhabits her own body in Part I Chapter 15?

3. How does Shay prove she is not crazy in Part I Chapter 16?

4. What does Shay learn about the Maddon twins in Part I Chapter 11?

5. What happens to John McCabe in Part I Chapter 14?

6. What happens when Shay gives birth in Part I Chapter 19?

7. How does Shay and her family feel about her impending nuptials in Part I Chapter 2?

8. What occurs at the wedding in Part I Chapter 5?

9. How does Corbin react to Brandy's strange behavior?

10. What does Shay realize in Part I Chapter 16?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the genre of the novel? What are elements commonly found in this type of novel? What are some other examples of works of this genre? What similarities do these works share with the novel "The Mirror"?

Essay Topic 2

What mystery surrounds the mirror? What questions do the protagonists have in regards to the mirror? To these questions get answered?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Millhiser's use of foreshadowing. What are some examples of foreshadowing in the novel? Why might Millhiser use foreshadowing?

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