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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 regales Jimmy with the myriad of possibilities for disaster?

2. Where does Jimmy go for his first errand?

3. How much time is left before the bombs go off when Jimmy begins loading?

4. Where is Jimmy born?

5. What kind of hat does Punch wear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jimmy do to try to get away from the man in the Hummer?

2. What is Jimmy's biggest problem around Lorrie?

3. Who arrives while they are talking to the killer and why does that buoy his spirits?

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

5. What does Lorrie's mother do for a living, and what are her main sources of income from it?

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

7. How does Lorrie's demeanor help the situation that she and Jimmy find themselves in?

8. What does Punchinello tell Jimmy and Lorrie about the day of his birth?

9. In what way does the killer reveal vulnerability?

10. What is so incredible about the predictions made by Josef in the hospital?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the last thing Konrad Beezo does before he disappears the first time? What three things remain when it is all over? What is the significance of these three items? Which item gives Jimmy the creeps? Why? How is it even possible that one of these items survives? What is written on the card that links him to the day he was born?

Essay Topic 2

How does Charlene explain the events that took place on the night that Punch and Jimmy were born? What events conspired to bring her to the decision that she made? Why was she so sure that she would never be caught in her deception? What harm did this deception cause if any? Who benefited? What did Charlene do with the child born to Madelaine? Where is the boy now?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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