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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 the weather like, when the McGill comes to the piers?

2. How does Nick manage to cut his rope?

3. What handicap do the people in the haunted house have?

4. How does Mary greet Nick when he returns?

5. How far away from his goal does Nick find himself, after the kids are done manipulating their ropes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mary respond when Nick tells her about the McGill and Allie's plan to defeat him?

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

3. What does Allie grab onto to get on the McGill's ship?

4. What does the McGill keep in his spittoon?

5. How does Mikey escape the mob?

6. What does the McGill look like?

7. What does Meadow say to Nick, once he's started the Twin Towers children on the way to the light?

8. What does Allie plan to do after she gets home?

9. How does Lief act when Pinhead and the other associates find him after he and Nick run away?

10. What caused the little girl at the end of the story to get lost on her way to the light?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Mary takes authority over others in Everlost, as does the McGill. Discuss authority in the novel, drawing conclusions about what gives characters authority and when authority is or is not deserved.

Part 1) How does Mary put herself in authority over the children at the Twin Towers? Is her authority deserved?

Part 2) How do Mary's books give her authority? Do her beliefs have more power and authority because she writes them down? Is this authority deserved?

Part 3) How does the McGill take authority over others, and how does his authority differ from Mary's? Is his authority deserved?

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