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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. After setting their home on fire, what conditions does Konrad promise to return under?

2. Where do Jimmy and Lorrie go the day before Thanksgiving?

3. How did Beezo intend to get Lorrie up the hill?

4. What does he say after Jimmy takes it?

5. What does Jimmy realize as he hides from the gunman?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Jimmy able to overcome his fear and propel himself into action?

2. How do they react when Andy is born, considering the threat Beezo made when he burned down their home?

3. Why does Punchinello sometimes wonder if he's real?

4. What fills Jimmy with a sense of foreboding?

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

6. What news does Captain Huey Foster give Jimmy when he calls him out of the delivery room?

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

8. What gives Jimmy's position away when he is waiting for the gunman to pass, and why is that fortuitous?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What does Lorrie reveal to Jimmie after they have managed to subdue and restrain Konrad Beezo? How does she explain the way she feels to him? What is she so grateful for, and why does she want him to know this now? What is so exceptionally different in her mind between her life and his? What does she admit to him that renders him speechless? How does it make him love her even more?

Essay Topic 3

What is so amazing about the predictions made by Josef Tock? What physical condition is Josef in that makes his predictions such a surprise? What makes Jimmy believe in them without reservation? What do they find out after several predictions come true that makes the fact that Josef accurately predicted them even more amazing?

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