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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. In Chapter 9, when does spring start?

2. In Chapter 11, why does Janina say that some people are evil and nasty?

3. What types of books does the writer write?

4. What color hair did the woman have who told Janina she was Innerd's wife?

5. What flowers bloom at the beginning of May?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Janina find for a costume at Good News' shop?

2. When does the dentist begin working and why?

3. What does Boros find in the area where Innerd's body was found and what does it indicate?

4. What does Janina say the police could not find last September when they were looking for a beast?

5. Who is Borys Sznajder?

6. Who wins prizes for the best costumes at the mushroom picker's ball?

7. What costume does Oddball wear to the mushroom pickers' ball?

8. Who is "the President" (184)?

9. Why is the dentist not legal?

10. What did Innerd look like when Janina first met him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Boros Sznajder is an entomologist. What does an entomologist study? What is Boros’s purpose as an entomologist? Why might people consider some endangered species more important than others?

Essay Topic 2

Innerd’s body is found in the forest. What does Boros determine about Innerd’s death? How does taphonomy reveal how Innerd died? What is symbolic about the findings?

Essay Topic 3

Are Janina's actions in the novel moral or immoral? Are the actions of her friends who help her escape moral or immoral?

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