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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. Why does Lorrie think Crinkles is the weakest link?
2. Who lives directly across from them?
3. How old is Grandma Rowena in 1994?
4. What back issues does the killer look through?
5. Where did Lorrie Hicks grow up?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Jimmy tell Punch in an effort to ensure that no harm will come to Lorrie?
2. What remarkable things does Josef tell Rudy?
3. What does Punchinello tell Jimmy and Lorrie about the day of his birth?
4. What is Jimmy's surprising initial response to the killer's shooting of Lionel Davis?
5. What does Lorrie's mother do for a living, and what are her main sources of income from it?
6. What happens to Konrad Beezo's wife during delivery of their son?
7. What is the purpose of the tunnel and who built it?
8. Who arrives while they are talking to the killer and why does that buoy his spirits?
9. What does Lorrie reveal to Jimmy about her family?
10. How does Konrad take the death of his wife and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What fears do Annie and Lucy share? How are they described by the girls? How is their fear different from the fear that Adam has? Why is Adam's fear strangely like a premonition? How do the fears that the two girls share save them from the sight of Konrad dead, and their mother injured on the floor in the kitchen? What does Jimmie tell them to get them to stay away despite their fear?
Essay Topic 2
What do Jimmy and Lorrie ask of Punchinello? How does he respond to this request? Why does Jimmy go back in to see him after they had already left? What changes Punch's mind? What one request does he have in return for the precious gift they require of him? Why does Jimmy so readily agree? Does Jimmy ever intend to fulfill his part of this agreement? Why not?
Essay Topic 3
How did Konrad Beezo know that Lorrie was due and had gone into labor? From where did he monitor her and how did he gain access to this convenient post? What does Huey Foster of the Snow Valley police department discover when he goes to Nedra's house? What condition does he find her in that upsets him to such a degree? What has Konrad done to her that is unusual and degrading?
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