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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 Burny tell Tyler that he is hearing?

2. What does Tyler realize when Burny makes him look more closely at the white stones on Conjure Road?

3. What does Tyler think for a moment after getting the cuff undone?

4. What does Chipper tell Burny when he enters his office?

5. Who finds the No Trespassing sign that the Thunder Five are looking for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Henry tell Jack in the tape that he makes for him as he dies?

4. What happens to Beezer when he first begins getting close to the Black House in chapter nineteen?

5. What does Mouse tell about the Black House?

6. Describe the scene in Chapter sixteen when Dale is first bringing Potter into the police station.

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

8. What happens when Munshun is faced with Jack, Dale, Beezer, and Doc?

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

10. What does Jack discover when he flips over to the Territories in Chapter twenty-one?

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) Describe Jack Sawyer's personality.

2) When Jack and Dale go up to Black House, Dale notes that Jack seems younger and stronger. Do you agree with this? Why do you think Dale noticed this change in Jack?

3) Do you feel that the Talisman's effect on Jack was responsible for all of the faith that people had in Jack and all of his good qualities? Speculate on how he would have been different without the Talisman's touch.

Essay Topic 3

1) What did the bees represent in the story?

2) What was the significance of the bees being seen in the front of the story? When did it become apparent that the bees held some deeper meaning in the story?

3) Could some other symbol have been used rather than the bees? Why or why not?

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