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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 does the injection of succinylcholine say about Aaron Levi's death?

2. What habit does Elaine say Aaron got into in the final years of his life as a member of the transplant team at Bayside?

3. In Chapter 16, what do Abby and Vivien tell Dr. Tarasoff they think the Bayside transplant team is doing?

4. To where does Abby follow the doctor she saw coming out of Amity Medical Supplies?

5. What lands on the boat that fascinates Yakov and frightens Aleksei in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Helen Lewis from NEOB call Abby? What does she tell Abby?

2. What story does Abby tell Katzka and Lundquist in Chapter 18? Do they believe her?

3. Who are the passengers in the aft cabin as discussed in Chapter 14?

4. 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?

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

6. Where does Abby go to find answers on Kunstler and Hennessy? Who sees her there and chases her down for a discussion?

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

8. How does Mary Allen die? Who pronounces her death?

9. Why does Abby begin to think she is being followed by a van in Chapter 15? What does she do about it?

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

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

Who is Vivien Chao? How does the author describe her? What do you think this description says about the character? How does this description influence the reader's reaction to this character? Is the description accurate? Why does Vivien want to get Josh O'Day a heart? What, in Vivien's opinion, is stopping Josh from getting his heart? Is this true? What does Vivien do to get Josh his heart? Has Vivien done anything wrong? Why is Vivien forced to resign over this? Is this fair?

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