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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. Why does Dr. Longbranch want to take baby Jack with her to England in the prologue?

2. What is the name carved on the ruins Linda visits at the beginning of Chapter 4?

3. What is the Rules of Engagement?

4. What is the name of the wizard who follows Linda to the ruins?

5. In Chapter 10, what does Jack say he would like to be when he grows up?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 3, Jack is attacked by a man with a saber, but does not suffer any injury. How is this possible?

2. Why does Jack forget to take his medication on the morning of the soccer tryouts?

3. In Chapter 2, what object does Jack receive from Mercedes? How does Linda encourage him to wear it?

4. What happens the first time Hastings sends Jack an opponent in his special arena?

5. Who is listed as the person who found Susannah's body after her death? What is the significance of this?

6. How does Linda suggest Dr. Longbranch can keep Jack from developing his powers in order to allow him to live securely and in secret with his parents until he reaches maturity?

7. With whom does Jack get into a confrontation with during soccer tryouts? Why?

8. Who finally discovers the location of Susannah's grave? Where is it?

9. What reason does the leader of the Red Roses give for the murder of Lee's father?

10. In Chapter 8, what does Hastings teach Jack about the Games? How does Jack feel about what he is learning?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is kidnapped in England and taken to the site of the Games in order to persuade Jack to fight for a different team? How does Jack react to this kidnapping? How does Hastings secure the lives of those kidnapped? Why does Hastings not try harder to send the kidnapped teens home? How do these two kidnapped figures impact Jack in the hours before the Games are to begin? What kind of mental state is Jack in as he prepares for the Games? What are the stakes should Jack win? Should Jack lose? Who will be most affected by Jack's loss?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following relationships in detail:

1) Hastings and Becka

2) Linda and Becka

3) Longbranch and Jack

4) Jack and Hastings.

Essay Topic 3

Who is Lee? What does his father do for a living? What does Lee come home to find? Who is Carrie? Why does Lee believe the Roses did not hurt Carrie? Why does Carrie say it would be better if she left? Who does Carrie say the Roses are looking for? What is Lee? Why does this make him safer than Carrie? What has happened to Lee and Carrie's mother? What does Carrie instruct Lee to do for their mother? Who is waiting for Lee when he begins to leave Carrie's hiding place? Why does the leader say they killed Lee's father? What is the name of the warrior who hurts Lee? What does Lee swear to be rather than the bear he had been to that point? Who does the reader later learn Lee to be in the plot of the novel?

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