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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. Which older member of her husband's family also lives with Nora?

2. What does Toby want his mother to see in the brush in Part I?

3. Who runs the company Lurie is traveling with?

4. What does Lurie's father call himself for a while after growing frustrated with people mispronouncing his name?

5. What does Donovan tell Lurie when he asks Donovan why he left Lurie at the roadside?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Donovan do to Lurie immediately after the wanted poster appears?

2. How does the "Wanted" poster in Part I describe Lurie?

3. In Part I, what does Lurie wish he could remember his father talking about more than anything else?

4. What was Hobb's special skill, even as a child?

5. What does Toby want to show his mother so badly in Part I that Nora is skeptical about?

6. What two kinds of folk had Donovan once told Lurie the world was full of?

7. What do Emmett and Nora do when some of their neighbors move away, including the Flores family?

8. What is awkward about Nora's visit to Desma in Part II?

9. What is Hobb's "want" that Lurie is compelled to fulfill?

10. What kind of creature does Lurie see for the first time when he steals away on the ship in Part II?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think Nora is much more open to the idea that Josie's ability to communicate with the spirit world could be legitimate and true at the end of the novel than she is at the beginning? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How does the death of Nora's first-born child, Evelyn, affect Nora and Nora's approach to motherhood as she raises her three younger children, all sons? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support it.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring the bond Lurie and Jolly develop over many years, analyzing the arc of their friendship and citing specific references to the text to support your answers. Why do you think Jolly chooses to help Lurie so much, even after he discovers Lurie is an outlaw?

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