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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 Danny think that Beezer and Dale look like in Chapter thirteen when he sees them talking outside of Ed's Eats and Dawgs?

2. What does Henry say about the song that Burny requested while at the Strawberry Festival, 'I Can't Get Started'?

3. Why does Henry say that blind people do not drive?

4. What does Judy write on the note pad in Chapter two?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Dale tell Jack in Chapter ten when he calls Jack?

3. Explain what is known about Henry Leyden that is shown in chapter three.

4. Describe the scene in Chapter four where Jack and Dale are putting up paintings.

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

6. What does T.J. see when he gets to the spot where they left Tyler?

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

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

9. What does Burny do in Chapter fifteen?

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

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) Speculate on the reasons that Sonny and Kaiser Bill left when Mouse was sick.

2) Do you think that Mouse would have left if it had been Sonny or Kaiser Bill that had been injured? Why or why not?

3) Was Mouse's death necessary in the story? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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