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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 are the details Carl recites from the calendar he saw on the wall of the apartment of his second crib death story?

2. What color is Carl's tie?

3. What does Carl believe happened to the Stuarts?

4. Who bought the book for Helen that contained the culling song?

5. What is the name realtors give to the houses that are haunted?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the inverted pyramid?

6. What is Helen's real estate business based on?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several of the characters in the book have scams going on. Describe and compare any two.

Essay Topic 2

Carl and Helen visit several homes where children had died. Describe the similarities and differences of at least three of these.

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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