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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 does Jack tell Fred that he wants to do?

2. Where is Irma's body located?

3. What signs should be put up in French Landing as it is explained in Chapter two?

4. Who does Chipper owe $13,000 to?

5. What has been done to the children that were found as it is described in Chapter one?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Judy tell Jack about Faraway in Chapter fourteen?

2. What had happened when Wendell Green had tried to question Beezer after his daughter's body had been discovered?

3. In Chapter one, what is explained about Chipper's current situations in his life?

4. Describe the conversation that Jack and Wendell Green had that Jack recalls in Chapter four while cooking an omelet.

5. What does Wendell see when he gets to the crime scene in Chapter twelve?

6. What does Beezer do when he gets the phone call that Irma's body has been found?

7. What does Wendell want to get from Irma's crime scene as he heads out to Ed's Eats and Dawgs?

8. Describe what happens in Chapter eight when Jack interviews the three boys that Tyler had last been seen with before he was taken from outside Maxton's.

9. Describe the conversation that Rebecca, Peter Wexler, and Henry have in chapter seven when Peter says that there was another little boy taken from outside of Maxton's.

10. What does Wendell tell Jack after Beezer has ruined the film in his camera?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What does it say about Jack that he was determined to wait until 12:00 even before they left for the Black House?

2) Was this belief in the importance of high noon any different than the belief that Jack gave Beezer, Doc, and Dale with the honey that the bees had carried? Why or why not?

3) What other moments of belief were seen in the story that were much like these two examples?

Essay Topic 2

1) What was Tansy Freneau's role in the story?

2) Why is Tansy not visited again after the destruction of Black House?

3) Do you feel that there is any chance that Tansy was restored to her original state of mind? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

1) What was the significance of Burny telling Rebecca to look up Fitz Haarman in Hanover? Why was Rebecca and her findings not seen again?

2) Did it seem that the authors left the story unanswered by not showing the ending of some of the minor characters, such as Rebecca? Why or why not?

3) Was it necessary to the story's plot to kill Chipper? Why was Rebecca not killed also?

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