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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. Who comes into Jacob's room when Odd is looking at his sketch pad?

2. What is Brother John doing while Death comes at Odd?

3. What does Odd tell Rodion?

4. What does the NSA do about the deaths of Timothy and Maxwell?

5. What does Odd want to do with Flossie?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Odd and Rodion hope to get to John's Mew and what happens when they try?

2. What does Brother Knuckle do about the ice creature?

3. What does Sister Angela tell Odd when he asks about Justine and what does Odd think about the information?

4. How does Brother Timothy appear to Odd?

5. What does Odd do when the creature comes out of Timothy's body? What does the creature do?

6. What happened to Flossie that has made her emotionally ill?

7. What does Rodion say about Odd's interaction with Jacob, what does Odd ask Mother Superior and what does he think is the key to the situation?

8. What worries Odd about John's computers that NSA took and what is Rodion's response?

9. What does Odd do when he and Rodion reaches the Abbey?

10. What was Brother John's response to his fiance pregnancy and the birth of his son?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

A clear and prominent theme of BROTHER ODD is that of death. Discuss the following:

1. Thoroughly trace and analyze the theme of death in BROTHER ODD. What are some symbols to represent death? Are there different types of death? Is death really death? Is death an illusion or real?

2. Discuss the attitude of the following characters towards death: Odd Thomas, Sister Angela, Brother Knuckles, Brother Maxwell, Brother John, and Rodion.

3. After reading BROTHER ODD, if you thought it was an accurate portrayal of what death is, would you welcome it or run from it? Explain fully with examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Whenever reading a science fiction or fantasy novel, one must become familiar with new terminology that explains concepts or technology that is not a part of the "real" world. In the case of BROTHER ODD, much of the setting is familiar to the reader, though there are new ideas and terms to learn. Discuss the following:

1. Find five terms that are a part of Brother Odd's world that occur in the "real" world but are used differently in Odd's world. Define the words as used in in Odd's world and compare those five words as to how they are currently used in the American English language.

2. There are ways of learning about a new world or time when reading a science fiction or fantasy novel. Discuss the ways you were able to understand the world of BROTHER ODD. Did you have to look up any words? What does it mean to learn a word through its context? Do you have to do that in Brother Odd? What word(s)?

3. Were there any words you never really understood from Brother Odd? Which ones?

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