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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. How does Nick know he's not ready to go on to the light?

2. What does the jogger Allie possesses accuse Allie of?

3. What is step seven of Allie's plan for the McGill to learn skinjacking?

4. Can Mary's transportation hold all thousand rescued children?

5. What does Allie's first fortune cookie say?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect does seeing his picture have on the McGill?

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

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

4. How does the McGill change his physical shape for Allie?

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

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

7. Why doesn't Allie free Nick and Lief when she first finds them?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identity is a major theme of the novel, and naming is an important part of identity. Discuss identity and naming in the novel.

Part 1) How do characters name themselves, and how does their self-naming reflect their identities?

Part 2) How is the way characters forget their own names symbolic of losing their identities?

Part 3) How does Mary's act of naming elements of Everlost, such as "Afterlights" and "Skinjacking," affect both her identity and the identity of the things she names?

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

The genre of the novel Everlost is fantasy. Discuss how Everlost fits into the fantasy genre.

Part 1) What elements of the fantasy genre does Everlost have, and does it fit into any subgenre of fantasy?

Part 2) How does the world of Everlost compare with other fantasy worlds, such as Wonderland or Oz?

Part 3) How are the characters fantastical creatures, and how are they changed by their existence in a fantasy world?

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