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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 Dale to do with the price he has quoted Jack on the house in Chapter four?

2. What does Beezer tell Jack when they leave Ed's Eats and Dawgs?

3. Who answers Jack's cell phone in Chapter ten when Dale calls it?

4. What color is the house that is hidden down the road in Chapter two?

5. Whose hand writing does Jack find on the note pad in Chapter nine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Speedy tell Jack in the beginning of Chapter nine?

2. When they arrive at Ed's Eats and Dawgs, what does Dale tell Jack he should do?

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

4. What happens outside of Ed's Eats and Dawgs when Henry realizes that someone is taking his picture?

5. What happens in Chapter seven when Rebecca follows Burny out into the hallway to tell him to go to his room?

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

7. Explain what happened after Charles Burnside first arrived at the hospital as the story is recalled in Chapter two?

8. In Chapter four, what does Henry tell Jack has been happening to him lately while Jack is driving Henry home?

9. Explain the importance of the letters that Dale is looking at in Chapter three.

10. 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.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Why was it significant that Beezer and Doc could not find the house without Jack even after they had been there the day before with Mouse?

2) What does it mean that the Black House was almost infinite (page568)? Is it possible for something to be 'almost' infinite?

3) What did you see inside the Black House that you feel gave the most important information about the Black House? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

1) What moment in the story would you call the climax? Explain.

2) What was the main plot in the story? What were the subplots? How did these subplots feed into the main plot?

3) Do you feel that the story had a satisfactory ending? Why or why not?

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