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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. How old was the couple who owned the other apartment at the top of the building on the same floor as the apartment where the hostage drama was taking place?

2. What does the young police officer do to try to stop the nightmares he has?

3. What color are the curtains in the apartment that is being shown for sale?

4. What hobby did Zara take up after her psychologist suggested that she find a hobby?

5. How many people were taken hostage at a viewing of an apartment that was for sale?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator say that the real estate agent was not doing a good job?

2. Why does Julia not want Ro to make friends during the hostage situation and apartment viewing?

3. What nicknames does the bank robber and the bank robber's daughters use for one another?

4. Why does Jack have nightmares, and what does he do about them?

5. What happened when Jack saw a girl at the bridge prepared to commit suicide a week after a man jumped from the bridge?

6. Who comes out of the bathroom in Chapter 36?

7. At the end of Chapter 31, why does Anna-Lena find herself on the floor?

8. What did Jack do when he was the first police officer into the apartment where the bank robber held people hostage?

9. Why is the man in the rabbit head in the bathroom?

10. What did Jim trip over in the apartment building that he thought was a bomb?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jim sees a box in the hallway of the apartment building. What is in a box that Jim sees in the hallway of the apartment building? Why does he think the box contains a bomb? What stress is he under at the time? How do the stress and his desire to protect his son cloud his perceptions and make him come to the conclusion that the box is a bomb?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 3

The narrator inserts himself into the story. How does the narrator engage with readers? How does the author use the narrator’s didactic commentary to explain plotlines?

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