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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 Victor mess with at the front desk?

2. What does Victor tell Denny his mother has?

3. Why does Denny say he's carrying the object he brings to Victor's house?

4. Why does Victor's mother say they will have 30 days of adventure?

5. What does Victor tell Denny is the reason Dr. Marshall wants to have sex with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Victor's opinion of his divine origins at first?

2. Describe the conversation Victor and Paige have the first time they see each other after Victor runs out on Paige at the chapel.

3. What happens when Mrs. Tsunimitsu recognizes Victor as someone her son saved from choking?

4. Why would the narrator of the book start by saying not to read the book? What does this suggest about the narrator?

5. What aspects does Victor take into consideration when selecting a restaurant?

6. Why does Victor say that Colonial Dunsboro and St. Anthony's are both trapped in the past?

7. What does the newspaper advertisement say that Denny shows Victor?

8. Describe Victor's relationship with his mother.

9. What does Victor do when the girl leaves the front desk at St. Anthony's?

10. What does Victor do to try and learn his mother's secret?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Victor keeps retuning to flashbacks of himself as a child with Ida. Analyze the relationship between Ida and Victor when he was a child.

a. Did they have a good relationship?

1. How does Victor know how to find his mother?

2. How does he attempt to get away from her?

b. It is revealed that Ida is not Victor's birth mother at the end of the book. Compare and contrast Ida's mother-like behaviors with her inabilities as a parent.

Essay Topic 2

Victor believes he is the second coming of Jesus Christ at one point in the novel.

a. Why does Victor believe this?

b. What is Victor's initial response to this?

c. What is his response after he's had time to think about it?

d. Why does his outlook change?

Essay Topic 3

Victor wants to know who his father is, so Paige Marshall reads his mother's diary.

a. What does Paige tell Victor the Diary says about him?

b. In what ways does Victor reject this news?

c. In what ways does Victor embrace this news?

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