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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 Jimmy's mother think they should spend the day?

2. What consideration is part of the equation as well?

3. What do the clowns blow up?

4. How many people had Punchinello killed in total?

5. How does Lorrie try to get her purse?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Jimmy's surprising initial response to the killer's shooting of Lionel Davis?

4. What do Jimmy and Lorrie encounter as they are getting ready to leave for the hospital?

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

6. What does Jimmy tell Punch in an effort to ensure that no harm will come to Lorrie?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When is the next time Jimmy and Lorrie see Konrad Beezo? How does he manage to get past their defenses? What does he use as a disguise to get into the house? Who does he impersonate? To what degree does he change his appearance? What does he want this time? How do Jimmy and Lorrie react to this request? What is the outcome of this encounter?

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 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?

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