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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 is the medical reason Jimmy and Lorrie go to see Punch?

2. Who was the doctor that delivered Jimmy and Lorrie's baby?

3. What has Konrad been doing according to Agent Porter Carson?

4. What do Jimmy and Lorrie immediately realize?

5. What does Punch really want from Jimmy in return?

Short Essay Questions

1. What surprise do Lorrie and Jimmy get when Agent Carson is sent over by Huey Foster?

2. What fills Jimmy with a sense of foreboding?

3. What details must Jimmy attend to when they get to the hospital?

4. What does Punchinello finally agree to do the surgery in return for?

5. How does Jimmy finally overcome Beezo?

6. What does Jimmy begin by explaining now?

7. What birth defect does Jimmy inquire about that reduces Punchinello to tears and why does it?

8. What precautions does Jimmy take when they leave the hospital with their new daughter, Annie?

9. What prompts Charlene to give one of the twins to Rudy and Madelaine in place of the child they had that was stillborn?

10. What window into Punch's reality does he open for Jimmy to see?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Why does Lorrie write the last few chapters of Jimmy's memoir's? What conclusions does the reader draw from the fact that Jimmy does not finish the story of his five terrible days? Where does Lorrie's version of events begin? How does she start her narration and in what ways is it similar to the narration as it was originally written by Jimmy?

Essay Topic 3

What happens when Jimmy and Lorrie go to the Halloway Farm as requested? What do they see when they get there? What is requested of them by Virgilio Vivacemente? How do they respond? What is offered to Lorrie and Jimmy and what threat is made if they refuse? What do Lorrie and Jimmy conspire to do and how does it almost back fire? What happens to Jimmy? To Virgilio?

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