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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. Where does the face of the barbiturate suicide appear?

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

3. What does Carl say is standard procedure with regard to a parent's role in a baby's death?

4. What does Carl say is the only fact known about sudden infant death syndrome?

5. Who is the radio personality Carl kills?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Helen's response when Carl asks if she was responsible for the death of Basil Frankie?

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

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

6. What is the inverted pyramid?

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

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

9. List at least four details Carl has for his first dead baby story.

10. What is the Book of Shadows, what is another name for it and why are Carl, Mona and Helen looking for it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Helen's use of the culling song is vastly different from Carl's use and from what Oyster plans to use it for. Are Helen's motives any more honorable? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Describe how the grimoire originally came into Helen's possession. Compare it's original purpose with what Helen uses it for.

Essay Topic 3

What is the quest Carl and Sarge set out on? Why are they on this quest? Will they ever be successful?

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