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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 the McGill want from Allie?

2. What does Nick hide behind when the McGill opens his hiding place?

3. Who tells Allie where to find Nick and Lief?

4. What does Mikey try to imagine so that he and Allie are pulled upwards?

5. How does Mary know something must be horribly wrong, as Nick approaches the Twin Towers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the prophecy that Allie will be the first and last come to pass?

2. What is inside the McGill's safe?

3. What does Vari do after Mary has left?

4. What does Nick mean when he says "macrame"?

5. What does the McGill look like?

6. What does Allie do, to prove she has skinjacked the woman in the haunted house?

7. What did the Twin Pier Marauders do to the McGill?

8. How does Mary react when she finds out Nick has helped the thousand children on to the light?

9. How does the McGill deal with the tangled kids in the chiming chamber?

10. Why does Choo-Choo Charlie like Penn Station?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Characters in Everlost gain and use power over each other. Discuss power in Everlost.

Part 1) How is power related to will in Everlost? How does a strong mind and will give a character power?

Part 2) How do characters in Everlost use their power over others, and how does this create conflict?

Part 3) What do characters in Everlost hope to gain using their power and strength of will? To what end do characters use power?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the setting of the novel.

Part 1) How is the nature of Everlost, and its rules, and important part of the novel? How do the characters change the setting, and how does the setting change the characters?

Part 2) How does the setting of the novel affect its tone?

Part 3) How does removing the characters from their lives and placing them in Everlost affect the characters' personalities and actions?

Essay Topic 3

In Everlost, two sets of characters develop relationships: Mary and Nick, and the McGill and Allie. Discuss love and relationships in the novel.

Part 1) How is the development of attraction between Mary and Nick different from the development of attraction between the McGill and Allie? Why is it different?

Part 2) How do Vari and Pinhead react to the intrusion of Nick and Allie, respectively, on their relationships with Mary and the McGill?

Part 3) What is the role of love in the novel, and how is it affected by the youth of the characters when they die?

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