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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 sauce does Raoul order with his scrambled eggs?

2. What kind of contact did Diane Severe rule for Richard Moody and his children?

3. Who drives Beverly home from the Sea Breeze Motel?

4. What kind of fish does Alex keep in his pond?

5. What do the police find while searching the area where the Swopes' bodies are found?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Alex finally get Ricky Moody to talk to him at Mal's office?

2. Why does Doug Carmichael keep his job with Adam and Eve Messenger Service a secret?

3. What defense of the nurses does Valcroix offer when Raoul blames them for Woody's disappearance?

4. Why does Raoul say the parents who were Jehovah's Witnesses, were happy when Raoul took them to court to force them to allow blood transfusions for their daughter?

5. What reasons does Professor Fiacre give for the Touch being a small, relatively unknown sect?

6. Why is Alex a bit reluctant to call Milo with the information he learns about Augie from Bev?

7. Why does Alex decide to return Moody's phone call?

8. Who are the Touchers?

9. What is Raoul's office like?

10. Why does Alex describe Raoul's world as "madness"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the three main settings of the novel? How do they differ from one another? How do each of them make Alex feel?

Essay Topic 2

How are Alex and Noble Mathias alike? What in their past is alike? How does each man react to their traumatic past? What leads Alex down a different path than Noble?

Essay Topic 3

How is Augie's perspective on the events at the hospital unique? What makes him able to see things in a different way than other doctors? What about him is so difficult for Raoul to deal with? Why doesn't Raoul fire him?

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