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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 David choose in Chapter Three?

2. What city is David trying to reach, to get on a boat?

3. What does the family invite David to do?

4. What feature does David want to see most about himself?

5. Why does David pick up the newspaper the food is wrapped in?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why David plunges through the thicket instead of going around it.

2. Why was it so important for David to clean himself so thoroughly?

3. Explain why David knows so little of himself, including where he is from, and what he looks like.

4. Explain what the man tells David to do to escape.

5. Describe David's response to his new surroundings, and why they are so powerful.

6. Explain David's reaction to the baby.

7. Explain how David comes to the home of Giovanni.

8. Describe David's reaction to his bedroom, when he awakens the first time.

9. Describe how David is able to keep going long after he has stopped caring.

10. Describe how David comes to own a mirror, and his reaction to his own reflection.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the novel there is reference to David's eyes. This is later linked in the novel to the eyes of Edith, his mother. Explain what people see when they look into David's eyes, in terms of why they find his eyes do unique. What in David's life has led him to show the expression in his eyes that he shows? Why does his mother have the same eyes? How does the author use this to link not only their genetics, but their experiences?

Essay Topic 2

Foreshadowing is used extensively throughout the novel to help indicate future events. Choose two examples of foreshadowing, and discuss how these examples indicate events to occur within the novel. Do you think the author uses foreshadowing effectively? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

There are many references in the novel to the power of "them", without actual description of who "they" really are. Choose three instances where the author gives information about "them", and explain the reference in detail. What is said about "them"? What does the reference indicate about who "they" might be? How does the author use these vague descriptions to impose a feeling of unfocused dread?

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