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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 next to the radio on Mona's desk?

2. What is in the package Carl picks up on his way home from work?

3. What does Carl say is the problem with every story?

4. What does Carl believe happened to Helen's husband and son?

5. What is on the table in Helen's real estate office?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Carl come to believe that Helen killed the Stuarts?

4. What does Helen say about her ability to pray very quickly?

5. How does Carl begin to make the connection about the poem and the deaths of children?

6. Aside from the sudden infant death syndrome, what are the other stories Carl is supposed to be following up on?

7. What does Carl say is the reason his series about sudden infant death syndrome is so compelling to readers, especially parents and grandparents?

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

9. Describe the telephone conversation Helen is having when she meets Carl for the first time.

10. What are some of the myths about sudden infant death that Carl says have been disproved?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Both Carl and Nash come into the culling song because of their jobs. Describe how each comes into possession of the culling song, how each uses it and the fate of each.

Essay Topic 3

What is the main theme of this story? List at least three examples of that theme and at least one reason why the theme is important to the story line.

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