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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 flowers bloom at the beginning of May?

2. Whose was the first horoscope that Janina ever did?

3. At the beginning of Chapter 12, what does Oddball want Janina to help him make?

4. What do Janina, Oddball, and Boros do together the evening after Janina and Boros help Oddball in Chapter 11?

5. What age chlidren was Janina asked to teach when she moved to her house in Luftzug?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do Janina, Boros, and Oddball do when they meet in the evening in Chapter 11?

4. What does Oddball say about his family?

5. Who is Borys Sznajder?

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

7. Who does Janina see in the woods in Chapter 10, and what does he look like?

8. What request does Oddball have for Janina in Chapter 12?

9. How does the writer tell Janina to write a memoir?

10. In Chapter 11, why does Oddball ask for Janina's help?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Janina first sees Boros in the forest. How would you describe the relationship between Janina and Boros? What does their relationship reveal about their traits and goals?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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