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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. Who calls Abby out of surgery in Chapter 13?

2. Where does Zwick suggest Mark will want to get married in Chapter 13?

3. What is Wonderland?

4. Who proves that the lock on Abby's locker could have been opened by a saboteur in Chapter 13?

5. What color is the van Abby continuously sees following her?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Abby suspect that Mark is in on the sale of human organs? What danger does Vivien suggest this poses for Abby?

2. What really happens behind the blue door in Chapter 19?

3. How does Mark react when Abby asks him about the deaths of Kunstler and Hennessy? Why?

4. What does Mr. Parr do to Abby in Chapter 13 after searching her locker? Why?

5. How does Abby react when Detective Bernard Katzka comes to speak to her about Mary Allen? Why?

6. What do Abby and Vivien ask Dr. Ivan Tarasoff to do in order to help with their investigation into Nina Voss' heart donor in Chapter 16?

7. How does Abby gain access to medical records of heart transplant patients in Chapter 17? For what reason?

8. What happens to Yakov at the end of Chapter 19? What does this suggest about his chances of survival?

9. Of whom does Yakov dream in Chapter 14? What does she look like?

10. For what reason does Abby lose her job completely at the end of Chapter 17?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why are children routinely taken off the freight ship? Where are they going? What does the helicopter come for? What is behind the locked blue door? Why does Yakov want to go behind the blue door? How come Yakov panics when it is his turn to go behind the blue door? What happens to Aleksei when he goes behind the blue door? Why do the other children think the boys are disappearing? Why does no one question the activities taking place on the freight ship?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the actions of Tarasoff in this novel. Why does Abby turn to Ivan Tarasoff when she escapes Bayside? What does Tarasoff tell Abby to make her feel safe in his care? What does Tarasoff do to Abby? How does Tarasoff explain his actions? What is Tarasoff's motivation? Why did the author hide Tarasoff's part in the organ selling business? What about Tarasoff should have tipped the reader off to his actions? Did it? What will happen to Tarasoff in the end?

Essay Topic 3

Abby is accused of medical malpractice several times in this novel. What is malpractice? What is someone claiming Abby did wrong? Why does Mary Allen's niece not want her aunt to get morphine? What is Abby overheard saying about administering morphine to Mary Allen? Why does Abby become angry and abusive toward the niece when she objects to the administration of morphine? Did Abby want to kill Mary Allen? What benefit would Abby get from killing Mary Allen? Why is Abby accused of this murder? What evidence is there? What is the end result of this evidence?

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