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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 happens when Nina comes in and sees Laura lying under Sheener's body?

2. What do the Teagels agree is the purpose of having an adoptive child?

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

4. What does the blue-eyed man tell the nurse when he calls the hospital?

5. What does Laura realize that Sheener is showing when he looks at her now?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the fire that happens at the McIlroy house at the end of Chapter 2.

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

4. Describe Sheener's home.

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

6. Describe the Dockwiler family.

7. Describe what happens to Laura when she first arrives at the McIlroy house?

8. Describe Dr. Markwell and what he is doing when Chapter 1 begins.

9. What does Stefan see is going to happen to Laura in Chapter 2?

10. What happens to Janette Shane?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) Laura talks about the negative aspects of being a well known face. Explain what you would and would not like about being famous.

Part 2) What would you have done if you had felt that there was no way to remain safe from time travelers? What steps would you have taken compared to the ones that Laura took?

Part 3) Why did Laura choose to trust her son's advice when trying to avoid the time travelers?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Part 1) Compare Ruthie and Thelma.

Part 2) Speculate on how, if any, the relationship would have been different if it had been Ruthie that lived rather than Thelma.

Part 3) Speculate on the difference between a relationship between twins compared to that of other siblings.

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