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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 movie star does Milo compare Raoul to when he goes to La Vista to demand the arrest of the Touch?

2. What does Alex stand on to peer through the window at the Retreat?

3. What years is on Volume 1 of Mr. Swopes' ledgers?

4. What does Alex find in a hidden compartment along with some drugs in Matthias' room?

5. Who does Raoul barge in on to demand the arrest of the Touch for the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Swope?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is strange about the bookshelf in Matthias' room?

2. Why does Alex believe the diagnosis of cancer in their child must have been especially hard on the Swopes?

3. Why does Alex say he "craved the balm of denial" as he is leaving the Touch's Retreat?

4. What reason does Ezra give Alex for leaving very quickly the first time he met Mr. Swopes?

5. Why does Doug feel he, Nona, and Woody are a family?

6. What is significant about the back road Alex notices on the county map in the La Vista police station?

7. What is Alex's initial impression of the Touch's Retreat?

8. Why does Alex decide to follow the car he encounters as he leaves the Retreat?

9. Why doesn't Nona want to return Woody to the hospital?

10. Why is Alex certain that Matthias lied about buying seeds from Mr. Swopes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is Kellerman uniquely qualified to write a crime novel such as this? What is his background? How is he similar to Alex?

Essay Topic 2

What makes "Blood Test" a crime novel? What aspects of the crime novel genre does the book contain?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss determination as a motif of the novel. Which characters exhibit determination and what are they determined to do? How does determination fit as a motif of the novel?

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