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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. Whom does Mike see dressed in Jared Devore's clothes as a ghost?

2. Who warns Mike about stirring things up in town?

3. The private detective learns that Durgin has ________________ children.

4. Whose voice does Mike hear encouraging him to swim for the float?

5. What does Mike struggle to get into at the beginning of Chapter 27?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mike struggle with the feelings that are growing for Mattie?

2. What senses does Mike experience about a young boy as he walks along the lake?

3. Describe Mike's experience of "time travel" at the Fryeburg County Fair in 1900.

4. What does Frank tell Mike about being with Jo at Sara Laughs shortly before she died?

5. What is Mike's reaction to the tape of Rogette's voice that John plays in the car?

6. What preoccupies Mike's mind regardless of all the supernatural things going on around him?

7. What decision does Mike make regarding Mattie and their relationship and how do his feelings for her ultimately save his life?

8. Why does Mrs. Meserve resign as Mike's housekeeper and what is Mike's reaction to her resignation?

9. What horrible acts is Mike driven to commit on Kyra and himself?

10. Why does Mike hear Jo screaming and what does he find in the plastic owls?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the greatest lesson Mike learns from Bill Dean? Is it true that important lessons are also painful ones? What will Mike always recall about his experiences with Bill?

Essay Topic 2

Mattie Devore was no stranger to hurt and pain. From what you about Mattie's life through this book, what were her biggest sorrows and worst betrayals? How did she manage through them? How did her coping skills evidence themselves in many aspects of her life? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Describe Kyra. What is her role in the story? What was the author trying to accomplish by developing Kyra's character in the novel?

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