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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 the killer promise Crinkles?

2. What does Jimmy say to Lorrie after they are cuffed together?

3. What does Jimmy fear Punch will do when he drives them to where Punch wants to go?

4. What happened to Jimmy's Shelby?

5. Why does Jimmy call her soon afterward?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do most residents in Snow Village make their living?

2. How many people are killed by Punchinello in the commission of his crime and how are they killed?

3. What happens to Konrad Beezo's wife during delivery of their son?

4. How does Jimmy's family cope with the first of Grandfather Josef's five predicted terrible days?

5. What dream did Punch have that he claims Virgilio refused to help him realize?

6. What makes Jimmy nervous about the addition of Crinkles to the situation?

7. In what way does the killer reveal vulnerability?

8. What is the purpose of the tunnel and who built it?

9. What remarkable things does Josef tell Rudy?

10. What is the most significant curiosity regarding Jimmy's family's relationship to food?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What happens on the fifth terrible day that Josef Tock predicted? How does the Tock family respond when the doorbell rings? Who is standing there and what does he want? Why does he panic when Jimmy tries to refuse his delivery? What is the delivery and why does the boy's last comment unnerve Jimmy to some degree?

Essay Topic 2

What events conspire to force Lorrie and Jimmie to go and see Punchinello Beezo in the Penitentiary? What surprises do they learn just prior to going, and how do they convince Punchinello that they are telling him the truth? What birth defect do both Punchinello and Jimmy share? How did Punchinello talk his father into fixing this defect? When the defect is fixed, how does Punch still disappoint his father?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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