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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 is a member of the Central Committee?

2. Who is responsible for stirring up the union workers?

3. What happens at Fergus MacDonald's house when people arrive at dawn?

4. Who is asked to write a forward for the book?

5. Whom does John Anders go hunting with?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whom does Mark meet at the studio?

2. What do Fergus and his troops do?

3. What does Mark see when he goes to Andersland?

4. Who is the unwanted guest at the General's party, and what does Mark learn of him?

5. What is the conversation between Dicky Lancome and the General?

6. What scares Peter when he meets Dirk?

7. How does Mark fall into the river?

8. Why is the Prime Minister honored?

9. Why does Mark feel a sense of destiny?

10. What is the great emptiness that Mark's grandfather tells him about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is the novel called A Sparrow Falls? What or whom does the word "sparrow" represent?

Essay Topic 2

What in your opinion is the reason the author has show an estranged relationship between father and son as seen between General Sean Courtney and Dirk Courtney?

Essay Topic 3

What is the author's writing style? Any use of alliterations, puns, etc?

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