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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 Mouse do when he is lucid for a moment?

2. What word do the human bones spell out in one of the rooms that Jack and the others enter?

3. What does Jack say that makes the door open at Black House?

4. What does Wendell ask Ethan to do in Chapter twenty?

5. What does Speedy tell Jack to do when he calls Jack on the phone in Chapter sixteen?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Tyler get his hand un-cuffed from the wall?

3. What happens when the mob lead by Tansy arrives at the police station?

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

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

6. What does Jack do after Munshun is dead?

7. What do Doc and Beezer explain about Mouse's condition when Jack first arrives in Chapter twenty-three?

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

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

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) 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) 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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