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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 Laura realize that Sheener is showing when he looks at her now?

2. What does Laura find underneath her pillow when she goes to make her bed?

3. What does Laura decide that she wants to do when she grows up while staying with the Teagel family?

4. Where did Danny and Laura spend their first anniversary?

5. What is Laura supposed to do while Danny supports them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Stefan tell Hitler?

2. Describe the dream that Laura has when they first stop after leaving the doctor's house.

3. Describe the toads that Laura begins to get in the mail.

4. What does Stefan do when he uses Kokoscha's belt to return to the institute?

5. What does Stefan first say when he wakes up in Chapter 5 for only a moment?

6. Describe Laura Shane when she is born.

7. What do the Ackerson twins say about Tammy?

8. What is Laura and Danny's first date like?

9. Describe what happens after Laura finishes Shadrach.

10. Describe what Stefan is planning on doing in Chapter 1 when he goes to the lab?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) Do you believe that time travel is harder to write compared to other types of fiction? Why or why not?

Part 2) What would you have changed in the story had you been free to make corrections or changes if any? Explain your changes and reason behind them or why you would choose not to change it.

Part 3) What do you believe may be the significance of the eleven-minute time gap that occurs between the moment that time travel begins and the return?

Essay Topic 2

Pick one of the following to write about.

Part 1) Why did it not create a paradox that Stefan sent the bottle back in time with a note on it?

Part 2) What would you want to check on if you could use a time travel device once?

Part 3) What do you believe would be negative side to using time travel?

Essay Topic 3

Part 1) Speculate on the reasons that it took Laura so long to mourn the death of her father.

Part 2) Did Laura take her father's death or Ruthie's death harder? Did she take those death's or Danny's death harder?

Part 3) Why was Laura able to accept life by the end of the book better than she had earlier in the story?

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