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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 Henry say that he is going to go do in Chapter four?

2. What does Henry say when Jack says that he did feel like a cop when he went back to the police station rather than a person playing a cop?

3. What does Judy find in the fisherman's creel in Chapter five?

4. What is Burny suffering from?

5. What does Pam say when Danny tells her that he will pull out his gun if Beezer even looks like he wants to fight in Chapter thirteen?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is explained about Nailhouse Row when it is first described in Chapter one?

4. 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.

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

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

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

8. What do Henry and Jack discuss in chapter eight when Jack is telling Henry of going to the police station to talk to Fred and the three boys that had been with Tyler?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

Choose one of the following to write about:

1) Do you think Jack would have chosen to go to the Territories to be with Sophie even if he had not been shot? Why or why not?

2) What do you feel are the most obvious moments of foreshadowing in the book or the most important? What events in the story do you feel there should have been some foreshadowing of but there was not? Explain.

3) If there was a book following Black House which characters would you want to see it focus on and what from Black House do you think would be revisited? Explain.

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