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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. Mrs. Kendall decides to tell everyone that Dave, the hybrid, is actually a human who suffers from what?

2. Dave bit ____________.

3. Who swallows a tracking device during a fight?

4. Henry's wife's name is what?

5. Lynn insists that who is staying at the house, no matter what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Brad Gordon's situation worsened, yet again, in this section of the book?

2. Explain how Bob Koch gets Alex's case straightened out.

3. How did Alex's father try to warn Alex of the situation and what objects did he send her to help?

4. Do you agree or disagree with Ellis Levine wanting to sue Josh for his mother's Alzheimer's symptoms?

5. What ordeal does Gerard face when Stan Milgram drops him at the side of the road?

6. Explain Dr. Bennett's predicament in this section and how you feel about it.

7. In Paris, Gail Bond stops spending the night at her own apartment, giving her husband the opportunity to make Gerard, their transgenic bird, disappear. Gail knows her husband is behind the disappearance due to his hatred of the bird, but cannot prove it. What does that say about Gail as a person?

8. With regard to his mother's New York cousin, how does Josh redeem himself a bit in this section of the book?

9. Describe the incident between BIlly, Jamie and Dave in the section.

10. Explain how Josh's previous actions are catching up to him in this section of the book.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain your attitude towards animal testing and embryo experimentation prior to reading the book. Then, explain your opinions on those subjects after reading the book. Did your opinions change? If not, why not? If so, in what ways and at what specific point in the story? Be sure to use plenty of examples from real life and from the book to back up your opinions.

Essay Topic 2

Answer the following questions about Henry using examples from the story:

1. Why do you think Henry wanted to create a highly intelligent chimpanzee?

2. Why do you think Henry used his own DNA to make the chimpanzee cross breed, Dave?

3. Do you think that Henry thought of Dave as his son, or only as his experiment? Do you feel that his opinion changed throughout the book? If so, when and in what ways? If not, why not?

Essay Topic 3

Marty Roberts begins to feel pressure when Mrs. Weller threatens to sue and he is later surprised to see that some of Mr. Weller's bones are missing and then that some are replaced with metal tubes. When he later finds that the lab results were skewed and Mr. Weller may have been poisoned, he is enraged because all of the hospital problems are falling on his head.

Part 1: Do you feel that all hospitals are corrupt in some way or mix up test results, either accidentally or on purpose. For what reasons?

Part 2: If you were in Marty Roberts' place, how would you have handled all of the above mentioned problems at the hospital?

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