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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 the topic of the song that Carl reads to Duncan?

2. Where does the face of the barbiturate suicide appear?

3. What is the basis for the advertisement regarding a class action lawsuit against Meadow Downs Fitness and Racquet Club?

4. Why is Carl really meeting Mona?

5. What does Nash set fire to in the bar?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the actions and conversation of the man with the sideburns.

5. How does Helen get into the home of the woman with the chickens on her apron?

6. List the details Carl learns about the man in the trench coat that Carl killed.

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

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

9. What is the ethics question Carl says journalists are asked before they complete their ethics class?

10. What is the "Roadkill Jesus" and what kind of people are gathering because of it?

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

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

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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