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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 the NSA do about the deaths of Timothy and Maxwell?

2. How does the uberskeleton follow Odd?

3. What does Odd hear when he reaches the end of the tunnel?

4. What surprises Odd when he turns around after putting his bags in the trunk?

5. Why has Ozzie's car been refitted?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the answer to the riddle of the three portraits on Mother Superior's wall?

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

3. How does Brother Timothy appear to Odd?

4. What does Odd tell Rodion when he reaches him and what does Rodion tell Odd?

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

6. Why does Odd ask Ozzie to pull the car over on the highway?

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

8. What does Rodion tell John about the ice creatures?

9. How does Odd figure out what's happening with Timothy as he watches the dead monk?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Odd Thomas is in many ways a larger-than-life hero. Discuss the following:

1. Does having a larger-than-life hero make that person less of a hero? In other words, which is more admirable--a hero who ultimately always "lands on his feet," or one who strives against impossible odds and doesn't succeed?

2. Does a character have to be successful in order to be a hero? Explain your answer.

3. Choose one other character besides Odd who you might call a hero/heroine and explain why you choose that person.

4. Does every work of fiction have to have a hero? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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