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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. Where does Jack spend Christmas Eve?

2. Who witnesses the van abduction of Alicia outside the Center on Thursday?

3. What is strange about Ronald Clayton's will?

4. What does Jack find in the safe box?

5. How does Jack get Sam Baker's men to let him into the Clayton House?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Alicia react upon revisiting the Clayton House for the first time in years?

2. How does Jack help Alicia cope with her past abuse?

3. Describe events that take place at the cabin in the mountains, after Yoshio arrives.

4. Explain if Alicia appears ready to move on with her life by the end of the novel.

5. How does Jack react to learning that Alicia hired an arsonist?

6. Why does Jack regret pulling Alicia from the van that abducts her?

7. How does Jack retrieve Alicia after her abduction?

8. Describe Jack's country house.

9. Why does Kemel just want the Clayton House situation to be resolved?

10. Describe Ronald Clayton's will.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Responsibility and integrity are two themes touched on in Legacies.

1) Select one character that best represents each quality and describe why that is the case.

2) Select a character who epitomizes one quality, but not the other, and analyze that character based on this criteria.

3) Use specific characters and events to explain how the author uses these two qualities to develop character growth in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

What determines whether or not the characters in legacy are vulnerable? Select three characters from the story and explain what their vulnerabilities are, how they are exposed in the story, and if or how that character deals with their vulnerability.

Essay Topic 3

Cultural, religious, and legal dictates alter society's perception of what is right, wrong and morally acceptable. Select two characters from the novel whose actions are affected by these outside beliefs (as opposed to an inner sense of morality), and explain how this effects character development and the plot of the story.

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