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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 Richard convince Anita to do?

2. Who meets Anita and takes her to Jean-Claude?

3. Who helps people out of the tent at the end of Chapter 6?

4. Who does Anita call in Chapter 3 before going to sleep?

5. What is the only difference between the first and second murder scenes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Anita tries to put Andrew Doughal back in his grave?

2. Where does Anita go in Chapter 5, and what does she see?

3. What is Anita's reaction to the crime scene she examines in Chapter 2?

4. Who are Jeremy Ruebens and Karl Inger, what do they want from Anita, and how does she respond?

5. What wakes Anita from her sleep, and how does she feel about her appointment?

6. What does Anita think about Larry as she talks to him while the Doughal family speaks with the zombie?

7. Who is Larry Kirkland, and how does Anita save him in Chapter 19?

8. Who does Larry hit with the car, and what happens when Anita checks on the person?

9. Why does Anita show her scars to Larry, and how does he react?

10. How does everyone in the room react to the fight between Anita and Yasmeen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Anita and Jean-Claude's relationship affect the story?

Essay Topic 2

Anita seems to live by her own set of morals. Is she a "moral" person? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

How are the different symbols (the Master of the City, Circus of the Damned, etc.) used throughout the novel to represent abstract concepts? Detail and explain how the symbols are used to describe certain abstract concepts and which concepts they describe.

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