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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 does Kate find in her wallet?

2. Who has Ben's father been speaking with?

3. In Part 1, what is Ben anticipating?

4. At what time should Artikin's action happen?

5. What has Raymond attempted to do to the hijackers?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Kate asks to take all of the children to the bathroom, what is she given instead?

2. What is Ben very eager to do?

3. Where did Ben fall in love with Nettie Haversham?

4. Why is Miro excited about finally getting to participate with Artkin's plans?

5. What do the events of the novel show to the reader?

6. Why is Miro excited for this day?

7. What do the terrorists do with the child who has died?

8. How do events begin to take a turn for the worse?

9. What does the reader realize as the narration of the novel continues?

10. What does Ben remember about the morning of the hijacking?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is foreshadowing a device that Cormier uses throughout his novel?

If so, what characters, or section of the novel does he choose to use this device in.

Give 3 instances of foreshadowing.

Essay Topic 2

Kate, Ben, and Raymond are all but in a very dangerous situation in which there is little hope and a large amount of doubt.

How do characters deal with doubt in the novel?

What do they look to in order to carry themselves through the difficult situations they have been put in?

Essay Topic 3

Two thirds of the way through the novel, the author begins to focus on two relationships. When it is revealed that Artkin in Miro's father, the author shifts the reader's attention to their apparent father/son relationship. Compare this relationship to Ben and the General.

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