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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 one of the signs say that people are carrying when they converge on Danny and Pam in Chapter thirteen?

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

3. What does Dale answer Brown in chapter fourteen when he is asked why he allowed Jack Sawyer to go to the crime scene?

4. What does Dale tell Danny that Beezer and his friends are there to do?

5. What does Jack promise T.J. when he begins questioning him alone?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Burny do in Chapter fifteen?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

1) Compare Dale and Beezer. In what ways are these two characters the same? In what ways do they differ?

2) Do you feel that Dale and Beezer will continue to help each other now that Jack is gone? Why or why not?

3) Which of these characters do you feel is stronger or the better leader?

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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