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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 in the package Carl picks up on his way home from work?
2. What is the first class action lawsuit Carl sees in the newspaper?
3. What does Carl say he wants to do with the original copy of the book?
4. What is the setting for the story Carl reads about the 1983 case in which the nurse's aide kills a patient?
5. How many copies of the book were there in the original press run?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Helen say about her ability to pray very quickly?
2. What is the ethics question Carl says journalists are asked before they complete their ethics class?
3. What does Carl say is the reason his series about sudden infant death syndrome is so compelling to readers, especially parents and grandparents?
4. What is the Book of Shadows, what is another name for it and why are Carl, Mona and Helen looking for it?
5. What is the inverted pyramid?
6. List at least four details Carl has for his first dead baby story.
7. Briefly describe three of three people Carl kills on the way back to his office.
8. What is Helen's real estate business based on?
9. What does Helen say about the origin of the culling poem?
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
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.
Essay Topic 2
Describe the occupation spell and how it's used in the story. Compare the instance in which Helen occupies Mona's body with the instance in which Oyster occupies Helen's body. How are the two similar? How are they different?
Essay Topic 3
Why does Mona leave the page with the culling spell in Carl's hands? Was she correct to do so? Why do you think so?
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