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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 Jack tell Potter when Brown shows up to take Potter?

2. What weapon does Burny use to kill Georgette in Chapter twenty-five?

3. What does Sonny decide that he will do in Chapter nineteen if Beezer continues to work for Jack Sawyer?

4. What does Jack explain about the flowers as he looks at them in Tansy's home?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens after Doc injects Mouse with Speed?

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

5. What does Mouse tell about the Black House?

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

7. What does Jack do after Munshun is dead?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

1) What was the significance of Burny telling Rebecca to look up Fitz Haarman in Hanover? Why was Rebecca and her findings not seen again?

2) Did it seem that the authors left the story unanswered by not showing the ending of some of the minor characters, such as Rebecca? Why or why not?

3) Was it necessary to the story's plot to kill Chipper? Why was Rebecca not killed also?

Essay Topic 3

1) Why was it significant that Beezer and Doc could not find the house without Jack even after they had been there the day before with Mouse?

2) What does it mean that the Black House was almost infinite (page568)? Is it possible for something to be 'almost' infinite?

3) What did you see inside the Black House that you feel gave the most important information about the Black House? Explain.

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