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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. Where is the bus taken?

2. Where did Ben grow up?

3. How many times will Sedeete send his signal between now and nine am?

4. What was the name of Ben's home?

5. What has Miro never seen?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the terrorists get all the children to fall asleep?

3. What does the reader begin to understand about Miro as the events of the novel play out?

4. When Ben's father arrives at Ben's dorm, what do the two men do?

5. What does Kate discover about Miro?

6. When Artkin summons Miro, what does he tell him about?

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

8. According to Ben's father, what do the terrorists want?

9. What was the General in charge of while he worked at Forte Delta?

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

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

The author likens the children and young adults in the novel to game pawns.

Do you think this is an appropriate comparison for the author to make?

How do the adults use the children in the novel.

Essay Topic 3

What American rites of passage are present or mentioned in this novel?

What characters are forced to go through these?

How might these rites of passage differ from ones that Miro was forced to live through.

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