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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. Bond got into the habit of staying at her lab partner's apartment and then slipping back into her own apartment in time to do what?

2. The men surrounding Alex are not after her, but are actually after what?

3. Alex calls her old friend, _____________.

4. Alex Burnet is in the middle of the biggest case of her career, so she does not ask many questions when her dad announces he is going out of town for how long?

5. What grade is Billy in?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe how Vasco Borden, the bounty hunter mentioned at the beginning of the book, is brought back in this section of the book.

3. Who, it turns out, was actually responsible for destroying BioGen and contaminating the cell line and why? What is the outcome?

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

5. Explain how Alex and her son escaped from Vasco.

6. 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?

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

8. Billy Cleever, the sixth grader Dave bit earlier in the day, is on his way home from school with his friends when they see Dave and Jamie up ahead. Billy's friends goad him into getting Dave back for the earlier incident. Billy jumps Jamie in the park, knocking him down. What are your opinions of that incident?

9. Explain the interactions between Stan Milgram and Gerard in this section and Stan's unusual reaction to Gerard.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Stealing is a key theme of the book.

Part 1: Explain, in detail, three examples from the book of things or ideas that were stolen. What were the reasons behind those thefts?

Part 2: In your opinion, is stealing ever right or ever necessary? Why or why not? Use examples from both the book and life to illustrate your point.

Essay Topic 2

When Marty Roberts discovers that Mrs. Weller might ahve poisoned her husband, he suggests that she have the body cremated.

Part 1: Explain how cremation would help both Mrs. Weller and Marty Roberts.

Part 2: Explain how the cremation backfired and what Marty did about it.

Part 3: Knowing that Mrs. Weller killed her husband, if you were in Marty Roberts' place, what would you do about it and why?

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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