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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 old man in the engine room doing?

2. Lief is left with a feeling of ________________.

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

4. Where does the McGill tell Pinhead to put Allie?

5. How many of the rescued children come with Mary?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is chiming?

2. How does Mikey escape the mob?

3. What is inside the McGill's safe?

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

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

6. What does Allie do with her typed message?

7. What does Allie believe the jogger will get as payment for Allie's possession?

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

9. What does the McGill keep in his spittoon?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Everlost is a type of coming of age novel, where young characters must become adults and live on their own. Discuss Everlost as a coming-of-age novel by choosing three characters and discussing how they grow up and move out of childhood through their experiences in the afterlife of Everlost.

Essay Topic 2

In Everlost, Allie seeks knowledge, whereas Mary values safety. Their conflicting viewpoints are the root of much of the conflict in the novel. Discuss the conflict of knowledge and safety in the novel.

Part 1) What kind of trouble does Allie's search for knowledge bring her? Is the search for knowledge worthwhile?

Part 2) What problems does Mary's desire for safety cause? Is her desire for safety worthwhile?

Part 3) How do Allie's desire for knowledge and Mary's desire for safety affect others? How do they create conflict?

Essay Topic 3

The fortune cookies in Everlost that always contain true fortunes show that fate or predestination is at work in Everlost. Choose three characters in Everlost and discuss how their fates are preordained. What roles do personal choice and free will play in their lives?

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