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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 Henderson's computer password?

2. What is next to the radio on Mona's desk?

3. What is the difference between night witches and day witches?

4. What are among the possible causes cited in the newspaper article?

5. What is being announced on the radio when Carl meets up with Nash?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Mirror Book and who has one on the trip?

2. What does Carl imagine could be the long-reaching effects of having the culling song become public knowledge?

3. What does Carl find Helen and the "chicken woman" doing when he returns from the bathroom?

4. What does Carl discover about his ability to forget the culling song?

5. What does Helen say about the origin of the culling poem?

6. How did Helen's husband die and what was the official cause of death?

7. Briefly describe three of three people Carl kills on the way back to his office.

8. What does Helen say was the reaction of her husband after the death of their son?

9. What does Carl offer up as "credentials" that he's worthy of following this story and why does he give that information to Helen?

10. What does Carl say about the sounds he hears from his apartment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Carl's relationship with his parents is severed after the death of Gina and their daughter. Describe how and why Carl reconnected briefly with his parents. What are other aspects of Carl's life that are impacted by the culling song other than the deaths of his wife and daughter?

Essay Topic 2

At one point Carl hopes the police will arrest him so that he can pay for his crimes. What is his motivation? Is it believable? Will it accomplish what he hopes to accomplish?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the Wiccan meeting. What aspects of that meeting seem reasonable and realistic and what aspects seem unreasonable? Why?

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