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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 Lucy think about the parents statements about Lizzie for comfort at the beginning of the book?

2. How does Lizzie feel when she wakes from her first dream in the land of the dead?

3. Who talks with Lizzie on the Observation Deck?

4. What does Sadie ask Lizzie for?

5. Where did Lizzie hide something before her death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it strange for Lucy to be telling us things at the beginning of the book?

2. What clues does Lizzie have to her death?

3. What does Aldous Ghant do for a living?

4. Why is Lizzie so upset when she learns how people age in Elsewhere?

5. How does Lucy plan to deal with her grief at the beginning of the book?

6. Who is Thandie, and how does Lizzie meet her?

7. What does Lizzie want to tell her family when she first prepares to contact them?

8. What does Lizzie try to tell her family when she contacts them?

9. What do the people in the Department of Domestic Animals do?

10. Who is Curtis, and how does Lizzie know him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fear is a common theme in this book that is presented a number of times by a number of characters. What are some of these instances, and how does fear affect the characters in the book?

Essay Topic 2

Andous was a minor character whose presence made a big difference in the plot. How did he accomplish this? What are some ways that his presence- however brief, altered the outcome of the plot? What would have happened differently if he had not been in the book at all?

Essay Topic 3

What is the most upsetting thing for Lizzie in her new life in Elsewhere, and how is this resolved?

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