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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 worries Jacob about floating in the dark?

2. What does Odd keep feeling as he follows Boo?

3. What does Odd do about a panel on the wall?

4. How does Odd think Timothy's disappearance is related Constantine?

5. What have the police decided about Brother Timothy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Odd see when he hears a keening as he walks towards the school? What does he do?

2. Where is Romanovich when Odd finds him to ask him to drive the second vehicle? What does Odd do when he sees him?

3. What does Rodion tell Odd about quantum theory?

4. What does Sister Miriam tell Odd about the drawing Jacob does of a woman?

5. What is wrong with Jacob?

6. Who visits Odd in Chapter 4, what does Odd tell her and what does she suggest?

7. Why is Odd at a monastery, who there knows his abilities and what do they hope he can do?

8. What does Odd tell Mother Superior about Constantine?

9. What does the Mother Superior suggest when Odd tells her about the bodachs and what is his response?

10. Where do the bodachs go at the monastery and what does one of the students say to Odd?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?

2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of BROTHER ODD, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?

3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements (They may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not. Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

BROTHER ODD is one book in a series of novels involving Odd Thomas and the other characters. Discuss the following.

1. What are two advantages of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Illustrate your statements with details from the text.

2. What is a disadvantage of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Illustrate your statements with details from the text.

3. Do you prefer to read a stand alone book, or a series of books with the same main characters? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 3

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in BROTHER ODD.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of BROTHER ODD. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of BROTHER ODD. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

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