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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. How does John greet Odd?

2. How did John Heineman feel when his son was born?

3. What does Odd ask Sister Angela about Justine?

4. What happens to John's computers?

5. What does the model John has created reveal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Elvis do in the SUV and what does Odd tell him?

2. How does Odd decide to leave, who picks him up and what actually happens instead?

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

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

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

6. When did Jacob first meet the Neverwas and what are the ice creatures relationship to it?

7. How does Brother Timothy appear to Odd?

8. What do the brothers do on the way back to the school and what comes out of the storm?

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

10. What happens when Brother Maxwell is fighting the ice creatures?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many events that happen in BROTHER ODD are foreshadowed by previous events and/or signs. Discuss the following:

1. Define the literary term "foreshadow."

2. Why would an author use foreshadowing? Do you think it adds or detracts from your experience as a reader? Explain.

3. Trace and analyze five instances of foreshadowing in BROTHER ODD. Match up what is mentioned earlier and what it foreshadows. Did you guess that each instance of foreshadowing was a "heads up" of something to come? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Though this novel is probably more action driven rather than character driven, obviously there are several characters who make the novel what it is. Discuss one of the following:

1. Compare/contrast the characters of Odd and Brother John. Include their goals, sense of honor, abilities, and social skills.

2. Compare/contrast the characters of Rodion and Odd.

3. Thoroughly analyze the character of Odd Thomas discussing both his strong and weak points and how both affect the outcome of the plot.

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