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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 is Alberta?

2. In chapter 12, what kind of relationship does Joshua want with Rose?

3. In chapter 18, what does Rose tell Victor she thinks will cause Sonya to finally give them the information they want?

4. In chapter 18, who suddenly stakes Sonya Karp?

5. Why is Rose in jail as the first chapter opens?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rose open herself to see ghost in her jail cell? Does she get the response she had hoped for?

2. In chapter 18, what does Robert Doru do to Sonya Karp in order to encourage her to tell them what they need to do?

3. How does Rose receive visits from people during her sleep? Who is the first to visit her in chapter 10? For what reason?

4. What warning does Victor make to Rose about Sonya Karp in chapter 18? Why does this warning frighten Sydney?

5. Why do Rose and Dimitri begin fighting physically once they arrive at the motel where they will be staying until Rose's friends can prove her innocence?

6. Who is Dimitri Belikov? What happened to him in the previous novel?

7. Who is Ambrose? Why does Lissa suggest they talk to him as she and her friends begin investigating the murder of Tatiana?

8. In chapter 16, how do Rose and Dimitri subdue Sonya Karp? For what purpose?

9. What does Dimitri do in order to find out where Sonya Karp is? How does this impact him emotionally?

10. In chapter 17, what injury does Rose have that causes her to need time to recover? How did she get it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following relationships in an essay using quotes from the novel to support your conclusions:

1) Rose and Lissa

2) Rose and Dimitri

3) Rose and Adrian

4) Rose and Abe

Essay Topic 2

Why does Dimitri have such a violent reaction when he kills Strigoi? What does Dimitri hope will be the result of these killings? How does Rose help Dimitri calm after this episode? How does this mark a change in Dimitri's attitude toward Rose? What happened to Dimitri to fill him with so much guilt and self-loathing? Why has Dimitri pushed Rose away? After this episode, what seems to have changed in Dimitri's behavior as compared to earlier in the novel? How does Dimitri appear to continue changing when Sonya Karp is healed from her Strigoi condition?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Rose Hathaway? Why is she in jail at the beginning of the novel? What is she accused of doing? What book does her father give her to read? Why is this an interesting choice of books for a person in Rose's position? What note does Rose have from the murder victim? Why would Rose be chosen as the recipient of such a note? What impact could the information in the note have on Rose and Lissa if it proves to be true? Why does Rose contact the person who wrote the note to verify its veracity? Why does Rose not ask this person the identity of her real killer at the same time?

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