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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 name of the child that Hatch and Lindsey are meeting?

2. How had her dance partner died?

3. What kind of beer did Hatch and Lindsey drink?

4. What nationality was the bed in which Hatch and Lindsey slept?

5. Why did Hatch try and make himself so nice?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Vassago do to the bodies within the fun house?

2. Why was Lindsey not comforted by the arrival of the mysterious Dr. Nyeburn?

3. Why did Lisa want the guy dead that Vassago was headed towards?

4. How did the car end up at the bottom of the ravine?

5. Why did Lindsey learn how not to cry?

6. Why did Hatch and Lindsey like Regina?

7. Why did Vassago frequent the Blue Skies Motel?

8. How did Lindsey perceive the person who had administered the oxygen and CO2 mix?

9. Why was Nyebern apprehensive about reviving Hatch?

10. Why couldn't Hatch and Lindsey simply try for another child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Jeremy's behavior while he was still a boy. What should have been done with him following resuscitation? Provide an explanation as to why this wasn't done? How might the plot have been changed if this would have happened to Jeremy instead?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Lindsey's painting of Jimmy. What did this represent? Why did it move Hatch to tears? Are these normal reactions? How or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the elements other than the supernatural forces that lend to the work being that of fiction. Explain the reality behind these points, and how they might have been written to lend more realism to a work of fiction.

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