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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 Torey feel when he is standing on the rock in the burial ground?

2. How does Ali know about all the problems of kids at school?

3. Why does Mrs. Creed believe Chris could not have written a suicide note?

4. What is Torey refusing to do in the hospital?

5. Who does Torey see in the woods?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Torey first see on his second trip into the burial grounds and what does he decide?

2. Where is Torey after he is rescued from the burial grounds and what is he refusing to do? How are the doctors responding to his refusal?

3. What does Ali tell Torey about some of the kids at school and how did she find out?

4. What do Ali and Torey discover about Chris and another town?

5. What do Torey and Ali tell Mrs. Creed about Christopher?

6. What does Ali tell Torey about more of Chris's diary she had read?

7. What does Mrs. Adams tell Torey about his vision at the rocks?

8. What does Ali again bring up as to what happened to Chris and what does Torey say about her idea?

9. Who calls Torey from school and what do they talk about?

10. What does Leandra accuse Ali of being and how does she react?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 1, Torey compares the boy Leo to Chris Creed.

1. Why do you think Torey sees Chris Creed in Leo, from the amount of detail you've been given thus far.

2. How would you feel about someone doing what Leo did when he came in Torey's room? Would you have done something different than what Torey did? Why or why not?

3. Explain why you think Torey trying to keep Leo from seeing his email project.

4. Explain in detail about a student in your school who tends to be unpopular, why it is so and how others react to this person.

Essay Topic 2

Just as everyone predicted, Bo is taken into custody for the murder of Christopher Creed. Despite Torey's insistence that he made the phone call that Bo confessed to and Ali's attempt to confess about the note on the disk, the cops do not care. Again this goes to the theme of perception versus reality.

1. What do you think is meant by the last part of this statement?

2. Do you believe police in real life would ignore Torey and Ali's confessions? Explain in depth your reasoning.

3. How often in life do you think people's perceptions are false? Explain some situations in which that happens most often.

Essay Topic 3

Torey and Ali are upset by the treatment they feel Bo is receiving, and they insist that Mrs. Adams do something to help him. Their attitude changes Mrs. Adams' attitude, and she begins seeing reality instead of preconceived perceptions in regards to Bo and his status as a boon, touching again on one of the major themes of the novel.

1. To what theme do you think this sentence refers? Use examples from other parts of the book where you've seen this theme.

2. Discuss what a theme in a novel is and how themes are shown throughout a book. Include in your discussion other themes you have noticed in this novel.

3. Why do you think Mrs. Adams has seen Bo in a different light following the visit to the police station in Chapter 10? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

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