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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 does Estelle keep the key to the other apartment that is for sale?

2. What does Jim remember that his wife used to pour in his pillowcase as he was about to go to bed?

3. When does the real estate agent plan to try the other apartment that is for sale?

4. Who suggests lighting a fire in Chapter 61?

5. Who comes to the door when Jim brings the pizza?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Estelle say about the secret of a long marriage?

2. What does Jim suggest that the bank robber do?

3. What does Jack do when he learns that his father let the bank robber escape?

4. What does Ro request when Estelle offers to make some food?

5. How did Julia and Ro meet and start their relationship?

6. Why is Roger right when he says that the top floor of the building used to be one apartment?

7. In Chapter 48, why does Jack run into the police station?

8. What does Zara do after the hostage situation?

9. What does Jack find in the walk-in closet at the apartment?

10. How do the police get the pizzas to the hostages?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jim and Jack are thinking of their wife/mother as the hostage situation unfolds. Why do Jim and Jack think about their wife/mother during the hostage situation? How and why do they try to do things that they know she would have approved of?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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