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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Vanessa on page 270, she has become a voracious consumer of what type of stories?
(a) Romance between an adult and a child.
(b) Romance between a man and a woman.
(c) Romance between two children.
(d) Romance between a young teacher and an older student.

2. What does Vanessa want to do after she graduates from high school, as she reveals on page 283?
(a) Become a teacher.
(b) Backpack across Europe.
(c) Move across the country.
(d) Move in with Strane.

3. Which of Plough’s seminars does Vanessa take in the spring semester of her senior year?
(a) Gothic lit.
(b) Romantic lit.
(c) Victorian lit.
(d) Renaissance lit.

4. How does Vanessa’s mother, Jan, refer to Strane on page 363?
(a) As “that pig.”
(b) As “that devil.”
(c) As “that monster.”
(d) As “that man.”

5. Of what is Craig a veteran, as revealed on page 214?
(a) Desert Shield.
(b) Desert Storm.
(c) Desert Smite.
(d) Desert Strike.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what type of office does Taylor work?

2. In what hospital department does Vanessa begin working after she turns 17?

3. Where is the site of Strane’s death, as revealed on page 198?

4. According to Strane on page 358, what does he pretend about his students?

5. What does Vanessa confess to Professor Plough during one meeting in his office?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Vanessa fit in on campus, as explained on page 269?

2. What does Vanessa learn from Jenny in the spring of 2002?

3. What happens during Vanessa’s conversation with Taylor on page 313?

4. Why does Strane send Vanessa a packet of documents? Of what is he trying to remind her, as he explains on page 327? What does he want to achieve?

5. Why does Vanessa feel a need to see Strane, as explained on page 267? What does she get from it? How is this adoration function like a drug?

6. What does Vanessa reveal to Henry Plough regarding her time at Browick? What connection to Browick does Plough reveal?

7. Where do Vanessa and Jo go together? What are both Vanessa and Jo learning to embrace?

8. What does Strane say to Vanessa when he calls her on page 187? How does he sound? How does she react to his call?

9. How does Strane react to his encounter with Plough? How does Vanessa react to it?

10. How does Vanessa feel regarding her impending graduation from college? What does Strane say about it on page 270?

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