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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 Wendy end up dying?

2. On what campus is Gaines holding hostages?

3. How does Kaiser let Jordan know that he's on the way over to her hotel room?

4. What item does Jordan move closer to her while Wheaton is out of the room?

5. Where do Lenz and Kaiser interview Frank Smith?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jordan feel about Laveau while she is talking to her about the murders?

2. What does Juan confess to the investigators about Smith and Wheaton?

3. What does Jordan realize about Wheaton when she wakes up in the bathtub?

4. Why does Wheaton react the way he does when Jordan plunges him into the cold water?

5. What does Smith confess to Jordan about why he and Wheaton have heated arguments?

6. What kind of relationship did Wheaton have with his mother?

7. What does the gunman tell Jordan as he is holding her hostage?

8. How does Wheaton kidnap Jordan?

9. What are Gaines and his girlfriend doing as Lenz and Kaiser prepare to question him for the first time?

10. Who is Conrad Hoffman?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Present a well-reasoned paper arguing whether the reader is supposed to find Jill a likable (independent, determined young woman) character OR an unlikeable (too focused on image, standoffish with her sister) character. Make sure to use specific examples from the text to support your thesis.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss at least four ways "Dead Sleep" would be different if the protagonist were male.

Essay Topic 3

Write a well-reasoned argument discussing whether or not Jordan Glass is a good role model for young, female readers.

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