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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 bank robber's daughters call the bank robber when the bank robber is running?

2. How long does Ro usually become obsessed with something?

3. What does Ro have for pets?

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

5. What did the bank robber sell to make money for food, but his mother drank the money he gave her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anna-Lena do after the man with the rabbit head is revealed?

2. How did the narrator describe Zara in Chapter 22?

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

4. Why did Jim's wife not want him and their son to work together?

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

6. What happened to break up the bank robber's marriage?

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

8. What happened during Ro and Julia's first date?

9. Who is London, and what information does she provide in her interview to the police?

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

Zara and Lennart have a conversation on the balcony. What do Zara and Lennart converse about on the balcony? What do houses symbolize to each of them?

Essay Topic 2

Events and characters cause a chain reaction in the story. What incident causes a chain reaction to occur in the story? How does the chain reaction influence characters' actions?

Essay Topic 3

When Jack is a teenager, he sees a man commit suicide on a bridge. How is Jack affected by the incident? How does the incident affect his life and the decisions he makes?

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