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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 is the name of the counselor that Steve sees after his wife dies?

2. What is different about Jeremy's copy of the video,"Targets" in Part One?

3. Where do Jeremy and Stephanie meet up for lunch to discuss the video(s) in Part One?

4. What connection does Stephanie make about the two of the videos at lunch?

5. How does Jeremy feel about his father's request about future jobs?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jeremy act casually about Steve having a new girlfriend?

2. What are Jeremy's excuses for not contacting the police after admitting the videos have similarities and are violent?

3. In Part One, Chapter 3, why does Jeremy decide to watch the malfunctioning videos, even though he usually throws them away?

4. What does Jeremy do after his father goes to sleep at the end of Part One, Chapter 4? Why does he do it?

5. How does Lisa Sample answer Sarah Jane's questions about the farmhouse and the woman in the snapshot? What does Sarah Jane think after she leaves the farmhouse?

6. How does Stephanie come to the conclusion that both edited scenes in "Target" and "She's All That" are from the same place?

7. At the start of the novel, what is Jeremy's reaction when Stephanie Parson's returns a video?

8. When Sarah Jane drives to Video Hut from Collins, why does she want to arrive first?

9. In Part One, Chapter 6, what version of events does the narrator say happened, even though the novel says that Sarah Jane tells Jeremy a different story?

10. How does Sarah Jane respond to the videos after she views them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part Three, Chapter 4 is set in the future and casts Jeremy as a worker who is rebuilding a shed. His co-worker is surprised that Jeremy knows so much about old sheds and how they are made. Jeremy's memories of being at Lisa Sample’s years before overtake him, and new discoveries are presented through this experience. What does Jeremy explain about his experience at Lisa's house? How do his understandings and revealings relate to Jeremy's growth and change of character from past to present?

Essay Topic 2

The narrative ends with Emily Pratt developing some of her photographs from Iowa in the cellar darkroom. She muses, "Still, when she [Emily] considered her best shot from that morning...she wondered what she'd already missed, what had gone missing from Iowa before she ever got there. There is no way knowing" (214). Emily's character does not know the story of Lisa Sample, but yet her words connect to the development and interactions of all characters in a previous time. Once again, the themes of loss, loss of memory, loss of knowledge, or loss of understanding are related from a character who has not been a part of the plot. How does this quote relate to the emotions and actions of other characters? Choose two to three characters to examine through the lens of this quote.

Essay Topic 3

Pages 121-122 describe a situation Irene Sample shares with her husband, Peter. She has left a bible study for asking controversial questions, but the author decides not to clarify what she has been asked by the congregation. What do you think caused Irene to leave the bible study? Knowing how the novel evolves after this incident, what topic do you think Irene disagreed with and why?

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