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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 do the cops do when they approach Cross and the person picking up the ransom demand?

2. Once the team is in Florida, Cross receives another note saying he must take the ransom to what location?

3. Who teaches Maggie and Michael's history class?

4. What do the psychiatrists, who interviewed Gary at the federal prison, think is wrong with him?

5. How many children does Cross have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Cross unhappy with his boss in the early part of the story?

2. What do Cross and Sampson find when they first arrive at the private school?

3. What caused Cross and Sampson to be taken off the investigation of Maggie Rose's kidnapping?

4. What has happened to the claims, over the years, that Hauptmann wasn't the real kidnapper in the Lindbergh kidnapping?

5. What happens, on Christmas morning, in the story?

6. During the part of the story where the ransom drop is taking place, what is one reason the reader might think that Soneji is not the mastermind of the kidnapping?

7. How are Michael and Maggie Rose not like normal children?

8. When Maggie is underground and a bright light appears, what does she do?

9. Why does Cross lose his temper at the soup kitchen?

10. Why is Cross drawn to the boy at the murder scene in Langley Terrace?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the character of Jezzie before her last trip to the Islands with Cross and after the trip. In what ways is the character the same and different? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

How does the story use empathy? What characters are empathetic, and to whom? What does empathy add to the story and to the characters? Use examples from the story to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the book, explain the role that race plays in the story. Is this a major or minor theme throughout the book?

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