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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 is Sexton's father's name?

2. What does Didi tell Hettie she will look for?

3. What does the Eremite tell Sexton he is witnessing when they first meet?

4. What is Xerxes?

5. Who can the Eremite sense as they get closer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Didi tell Sexton about crazy people?

2. Why is Hazel at the club?

3. What does Didi say she feels guilty about while trapped in the vacant building?

4. What does Foxglove sing about?

5. What does Sexton say to the girl with the gloves when he first meets her?

6. What does the Eremite tell Sexton he is witnessing in the vacant building?

7. How does Didi say Sexton will probably die, and what consolation does she give him?

8. How does Didi fight against Sexton's reasoning that she is not Death?

9. What does Sexton say to the record producer?

10. What does Sexton's father do for a living?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances affect that characters involved in those scenes?

Essay Topic 3

Curiosity was a trait that a few characters possessed. Who were these characters, and how did this trait affect their lives?

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