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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 Ryan do in Chapter 10 that annoys Brennan?
2. What weather does Brennan prefer?
3. Brennan's friend Mitch describes Dr. Jeannotte as the Professor of Religious Studies and what?
4. In Chapter 14, the doctor refuses to give Ryan some information. How does Ryan get the doctor to help?
5. In Chapter 18, Brennan gets excited about what while speaking with Sheriff Baker?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is ironic about Dr. Jeannotte telling Dr. Brennan that evil people don't exist and that "the myth continues, even here in Montreal, only now there's a new bogeyman practicing ritual child killing" (113)?
2. In Chapter 12, why does Brennan read from the Belanger journals?
3. How does the information that Anna Goyette is Dr. Jeannotte's assistant increase the suspense?
4. What point of view is the novel written in and what does the reader learn about the narrator as a result? Give specifics from the novel.
5. The death of the infants in Chapter 7 reveals emotions in all of the characters involved in the case. Brennan also feels strongly about it. How does she explain her emotions?
6. In Chapter 15, Sam Rayburn is introduced. Who is he? What does he do? What is he like?
7. In Chapter 17, Ryan complains about not being able to reach Sheriff Baker. What is ironic about this? Explain.
8. What evidence in Chapter 2 makes Brennan worry about finding children in St-Jovite?
9. Where is Temperance Brennan from and what does she do? What is she working on in Chapter 1?
10. What do the events in Chapters 16 and 17 reveal about Brennan's character?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Is "Death Du Jour" a work of hope or despair? Write an essay using examples and citing the book to defend your assertions.
Essay Topic 2
A climax chart helps organize the events of a story. Looking at a climax chart for "Death Du Jour," would you change the order? Why or why not? How does the order of the rising action help the effectiveness of the climax? Does it weaken the climax? In an analytical essay, determine the effectiveness of the organization of the novel. Use example from "Death Du Jour" to defend your position.
Essay Topic 3
While motives are not excuses, it is important to understand the motives of the antagonist because it helps explain how something came to exist. What were El's motives in starting a cult? What were her motives in killing the people at St-Jovite? What motivates El to organize a mass suicide?
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