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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 do the boys initially tell Miles they were hunting in the abandoned house?

2. In Chapter 1, what is Miles doing as he sits on his back porch?

3. Who escorted Missy Ryan's funeral hearse to the cemetery?

4. What is causing the unnamed narrator to have trouble sleeping in the prologue?

5. How old was Missy Ryan when she was killed?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what did Miles find in Jonah's backpack? What does Jonah have to say about it?

2. In Chapter 9, Jonah is convinced Miles and Miss Andrews are going to get married because they are going on a date. How does Miles handle this situation?

3. Why does Sarah show up at Jonah's soccer game one Saturday at the end of Chapter 7? How does Miles react?

4. Why does Brenda insist on talking with Sarah about Miles? What does Brenda tell Sarah about Miles?

5. How does Sarah react to the news that her ex-husband is planning to remarry? Why does she react this way?

6. How does Miles deal with Jonah's many nightmares?

7. How does Miles react when Charlie tells him that Otis Timson would be released from jail that day? For what reason?

8. How do Sarah's parents react to meeting Miles and Jonah for the first time? What is Brian's reaction to Miles and Jonah?

9. Whom does Sarah run into as she waits for Miles to get their drinks at the Tavern? What is her initial impression of him?

10. Why does Miles insist that he is not a smoker? Who calls him a smoker?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Miles feel about dating Sarah? What does Miles tell Sarah about Missy? Is Miles comfortable dating again? Why does Miles take Sarah on the tour of haunted houses in downtown New Bern? What story does Miles specifically want Sarah to hear? In that story, why did Katheryn place candles in her window? What was the message these candles were supposed to give to Harris? What does Sarah take from this story? What did Miles want her to take from the story? How do the candles become a symbol to Sarah later in the book?

Essay Topic 2

What is Miles' job? How does the author introduce this occupation to the reader? Is Miles good at his job? Why does Miles let two boys go after he catches them shooting owls in an abandoned house? Why did the author include this scene in his book? What does this scene say about Miles? What does it say about Miles as a sheriff's deputy? Later, why does the author have Miles be the deputy who arrests Sims Addison? What impact does this arrest have on Miles? What information does Sims give to Miles? What might Sims have done if it had been different deputy who arrested him that night? Why did Sims wait so long to come forward with this information?

Essay Topic 3

What happens to Miles when he hears Sims Addison's accusations against Otis Timson? How does Miles react to Charlie's insistence that he stay out of the investigation? Why does Miles go to Sarah with his frustrations? How does Sarah react? What does this tell Miles about Sarah's concern in the situation? What impact will these new accusations have on Miles and Sarah's relationship? Does this imply that Miles is not over Missy? Does this imply that Miles does not love Sarah?

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