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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 Cross want before he hands over the ransom?

2. Who does Roger Graham work for?

3. Who is Gary Murphy's wife?

4. What happens to the state trooper who sneaks around the back of the restaurant Soneji is holding hostage?

5. What year does the Lindbergh kidnapping occur?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes Soneji to take a McDonald's hostage?

2. Why is it important that Cross knows about Soneji's background?

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

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

5. Why is the first mention of the press important to the story?

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

7. What is one reason that Gary is trying to show, while he is in prison, that he has multiple personalities?

8. What is the difference between what the trial of the Lindbergh kidnapping centered on and what the story at the beginning of the book centers on?

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

10. Why should the reader think that the chances of survival for Maggie Rose are small?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using examples from the book, answer the following question: Is it important to the story to know if Soneji/Murphy truly has multiple personality disorder?

Essay Topic 2

What role does family play in the story? Cite examples from the story to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

How is the theme of trust evident throughout the story? Which character is the most trustworthy and why? Which character is the least trustworthy and why? Does your opinion of any character's trustworthiness change throughout the novel? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

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