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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 happens to Jack when he walks outside of the Nailhouse Row in Chapter twenty-four?

2. Who calls Jack while he is visiting Judy in Chapter twenty?

3. What does Henry think he hears while sitting alone in his house in Chapter twenty-two?

4. What does Chipper tell Burny the letter says that he received?

5. What does Mr. Munshun say to Burny in chapter twenty-six when he is trying to get Burny to get up and go move Tyler?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Burny die?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What happens after Doc injects Mouse with Speed?

10. What does Jack find when he returns to his world in Chapter twenty-two?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

1) Why is Fred Marshall so willing to trust Jack?

2) Do you think that Tyler went back to being normal in his world?

3) Do you think that the Crimson King will try to get Tyler again? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

1) Why is it that Judy was willing to kiss Jack when he returned from him meeting with Sophie?

2) What did Jack mean when he said he was in love for the first time after seeing Sophie?

3) What different kinds of love are seen in the story? Which of these seems to be the strongest?

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