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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 Potter tell Jack he has?

2. What does the Fisherman say as he is following Henry through his house in Chapter twenty-four?

3. What does Sonny see just before they enter the woods to go to the Black House?

4. What does the boy say when Jack tells him about Mr. Kinderling confessing to the murders of the two hookers in LA?

5. What does Mouse tell them to do after they are done in the Black House?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Doc remember about Daisy Temperly?

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

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

8. How does Burny die?

9. What is on the tape that is sent to Judy in Chapter twenty?

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

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 2

1) Which of the minor characters in the story do you feel could have had a much larger role?

2) Which of the minor characters do you feel could have been left out of the story all together?

3) If you had to play a role in the story what role would you chose?

Essay Topic 3

1) Explain the relationship that Henry and Jack have. How is this relationship different from the one that Jack had with his mother?

2) How is Jack's leadership different than Beezer's leadership?

3) How does the bond that Sophie and Judy share compare to other relationships in the book? What real world relationship would you use to best describe the twinner relationship that is seen between these two characters?

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