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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 many boats are at the marina?

2. What does Joy notice about her jeans one day?

3. What does Marcus tell Joy about her future child?

4. What game do Joy and Marcus play by themselves?

5. What does Joy slip and fall on when she escapes the Hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Joy was in middle school and went on a whale watching field trip?

2. How does Joy pay for her one night stay in a motel in Kansas City?

3. What happens when Joy meets Marcus on the bus to Birmingham?

4. Why does Joy stay in her closet for two days?

5. Who are Darcie and Nelson?

6. What happens when the Psychologist takes a young Joy to the beach?

7. What happens when the residents of the Mansion have a race through the woods?

8. What do the residents of the Mansion do on most nights?

9. What does Joy hope will help her dying friend?

10. What does Joy see on the news at a gas station in Tuscaloosa?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you explore Joy's relationship with Louis. What is the nature of this relationship, and what makes it so important to Joy? Use evidence from the text to support your thinking.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing how the author uses characters and behaviors to develop and strengthen the theme of loneliness and isolation in the wake of an epidemic.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you explore the role of the nurses and doctors in the Hospital. What are they there to do, and to what lengths are they willing to go to carry out their mission?

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