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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 do Jack and Jim get a phone into the apartment?

2. In Chapter 56, what does Estelle find in the chest in the closet?

3. How far does the negotiator tell Jack they had to drive in the village where he grew up to buy milk?

4. What does Estelle find in a chest in the closet?

5. In Chapter 51, what is the psychologist eating when Zara arrives early for her appointment?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Estelle tell people that Knut is parking the car?

3. Why does Lennart go to the closet for some pants?

4. What does the narrator say is the truth at the end of the book?

5. Why has Nadia not prescribed antidepressants for Zara?

6. What does Zara do after the hostage situation?

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

8. What gift does Roger give Ro in Chapter 39?

9. Why does Jack get annoyed when he interviews Julia and Ro?

10. What does Zara tell Nadia that she likes to do and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Colors are sometimes associated with mood. If you could assign a color to represent the mood Anxious People, what color would it be? Why? Would you choose different colors to describe the mood in different sections?

Essay Topic 3

The bank robber’s husband has an affair. What does the narrator think happened to the bank robber’s marriage? Why does the narrator think complacency played a part in the failure of the marriage?

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