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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. When does Miriam clean the toilet?

2. How did Laura hurt her leg?

3. How old was Ben when he died?

4. In Chapter 3, how long ago did Daniel's mother die?

5. In Chapter 8, where is Laura's mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Laura remember about being with Daniel?

2. What does Theo tell the police that he saw Saturday morning?

3. What happened the day Angela's body was found?

4. Why is Irene glad to have Angela's books?

5. Why does Laura struggle to match her outward behavior to her emotional state?

6. How did Carla and Theo's son Ben die?

7. What is Irene's favrorite reading spot and why?

8. What does Miriam do every second Sunday?

9. Why does Miriam decide to check on a young man whose boat has been moored two days longer than he is entitled to be?

10. What does Miriam have in the wooden box where she keeps her trinkets?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The setting in a book is the place or places where the action takes place. Where does A Slow Fire Burning take place? Is the setting simply a backdrop to the story and characters or does it take on the role of a character?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in A Slow Burning Fire? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 3

Miriam believes that Theo stole her story for one of his books. Why does Miriam believe that Theo stole her story? How has her belief that he stole her ideas caused a confrontational relationship between them?

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