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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 find underneath her pillow when she goes to make her bed?

2. What does the blue-eyed man say when Markwell says 'I still don't know who you are.'? (page 20)

3. What does Mrs. Browmaine tell the girls about Tammy?

4. How does Laura get her admirer's name?

5. What do the kids call Sheener?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Stefan wakes up a little more what does he tell them about his past?

2. Describe what happens when Laura has to shoot the men that comes into her home in the beginning of Chapter 3.

3. What does Stefan realize about the world he is living in while talking to Jason?

4. Describe what the blond-haired man says to Dr. Markwell.

5. Describe the Dockwiler family.

6. Why does Stefan explain that he had worked to change Laura's life?

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

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

9. What does Laura do to make public amends for her actions?

10. Describe Laura Shane when she is born.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pick one of the following to write about:

Part 1) If you had to live in a time differently than your own what time would you chose and why?

Part 2) What moment in time would you most like to influence and why?

Part 3) Is it likely that Churchill ever told anyone about the time traveler that visited him? Explain your answer.

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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