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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. Who does Lucas tell his mother to call when he sees the developers arriving in Chapter 2?

2. Who do Lucas and Olivia take Bella to see about pet laws in Chapter 8?

3. What is Audrey's response when Lucas asks her out in Chapter 3?

4. When the people first discover the cats in the crawlspace, who do they say they will have to call?

5. What does "FHA" refer to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was Bella born and where did she spend her early youth?

2. Who is the "pack" that Bella encounters in Chapter 12? What does she experience in their company?

3. What are Lucas's career goals? Why is he driven to pursue his particular career choice?

4. What foreshadowing is exhibited in the exchange between Gunter and Terri in the end of Chapter 7?

5. Who is Wayne and what are Bella's impressions of him?

6. Who is Gunter Beckenbauer, and what is his main objective in the novel?

7. How is the setting of the pound described?

8. How is Bella broken out of the pound in Chapter 10?

9. What mental/emotional struggles does Terri face? How did these issues originate?

10. What violations does the man from animal control cite when he encounters Bella in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Bella's relationships with the residents and clients at the VA Hospital. In what ways does Bella help the residents? How do they help Bella? What is Bella's situation like regarding the VA hospital at the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Who is the main antagonist in A Dog's Way Home? What is this character's main objective in the story? What drives this objective? What actions does he take to achieve his objective?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss three examples of irony in A Dog's Way Home. Given the unique narrative style of this novel, how is dramatic irony employed? What is situational irony and how does it apply to the novel's ending? What verbal irony appears in the text?

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