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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 Kaiser Bill answer when Danny asks why the Bikers are helping?

2. What does Henry say that he is going to go do in Chapter four?

3. What does Dale ask Jack when they first arrive at Ed's?

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

5. What does Ebbie say when Jack explains that it was George Rathbun in the truck with him listening to the loud music?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Burny do in Chapter fifteen?

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

3. 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.

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

5. Describe the scene at Irma Freneau's mother's house in Chapter fifteen?

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

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

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

9. Describe what happens in Chapter five when Tyler sees the black crow.

10. What happens to Judy in Chapter five?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Do you think that Gorg was actually a crow or that he was being controlled by a creature on the other side like Burny and Mr. Munshun? Explain.

2) If Gorg had been a creature on the other side, given that Mr. Munshun was a servant for the Crimson King, what do you think Gorg's role would have been? Lesesr or greater than Munshun's? Why?

3) Do you think it would have been possible for Speedy or one of the other characters to exert control over someone like Munshun did with Burny? If so why did he not do this?

Essay Topic 2

1) Explain the relationship that Henry and Jack have. How is this relationship different from the one that Jack had with his mother?

2) How is Jack's leadership different than Beezer's leadership?

3) How does the bond that Sophie and Judy share compare to other relationships in the book? What real world relationship would you use to best describe the twinner relationship that is seen between these two characters?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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