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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 tell Penniman to do with the drink that he is begging Henry to have with him in Chapter twenty-three?

2. Who is the official greeter at the door when Jack opens the door of the Black House?

3. What does Beezer tell Jack when he arrives at Nailhouse Row in Chapter twenty-two?

4. Why does Tansy say that she doesn't want to go to Night's Plutonian shore?

5. What happens at the press conference in Chapter twenty-nine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jack discover when he goes to visit Tansy at her home?

2. Describe the conversation that Mr. Munshun and Burny have in chapter twenty-six.

3. What surprises Burny when he looks in the mirror in Chapter twenty-five?

4. What happens after Doc injects Mouse with Speed?

5. What does Jack do after Munshun is dead?

6. What does Munshun tell Tyler when he first grabs him in Chapter twenty-nine?

7. How does Jack describe Mouse's leg in Chapter twenty-three?

8. Describe the scene in Chapter eighteen when Tansy Freneau walks into the bar.

9. What does Potter tell Jack when they are able to talk?

10. Describe the dream that Tyler has in Chapter twenty-six.

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 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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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