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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. In "The Weather is Bad," what letter does Sarah lose when she and Gretel are shopping at a supermarket?

2. In "The Weather Is Bad," what did Fiona cook for Roger's birthday in 1997?

3. In "The Weather Here Is Bad," what does Sarah want to do?

4. In "The Weather Is Bad," what does Sarah eat in Gretel's office?

5. In "The Weather Here Is Bad," what did Margot take from the boat after she killed Charlie?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "The Weather Here Is Bad," what did Laura and Roger do after Margot left?

2. In "The Weather Here Is Bad," what did Margot dream and see after Charlie's death?

3. In "The Dead Man Moving in the Forest," what did Fiona write her parents in the only letter she ever wrote them?

4. In "The Weather Here Is Bad," what did Roger remember about Margot on his birthday in 1997?

5. In "The Weather Here Is Bad," what did Roger discover about seven years after Margot disappeared?

6. In "Knock, Knock Wolf," what did Marcus do and think as he kept going?

7. In "The Weather Here Is Bad," how did Margot reinvent herself?

8. In "The Weather Here Is Bad," what did Fiona tell Roger and Laura when they asked her about Margot's disappearance?

9. In "Knock, Knock Wolf," what does Gretel discover after two hours after telling her mother that she is going to be working?

10. In "The Weather Here is Bad," what did Margot think when she saw police officers on the path talking to walkers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Gretel says at the end of the novel that the “places we are born come back to us” (263). What does Gretel mean by that statement? Based upon the storyline, how does the place where Gretel is born come back to her?

Essay Topic 2

Different sections of the novel are told from different points of view. What points of view does the author use in the novel? How does using different points of view affect the story and what readers know about characters and events?

Essay Topic 3

Gretel and Sarah have conflicts after Sarah is found again. What type of conflicts do they have? How do the conflicts affect their relationship?

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