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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 Nurse Thornton’s first name in "Season's Greetings, December 2008"?
2. Where does Bing Partridge live in "Spicy Menace, 1990"?
3. What recreational drug has Vic recently ingested in the opening of "Sleigh House, 1996"?
4. What is the name of the soldier at the country store who goes out to prevent Charles Manx from escaping before the police arrive in "Sleigh House, 1996"?
5. Who does Maggie say lets her get away with sleeping in the library from time to time in "The Librarian, 1991"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Maggie introduce herself and the setting where Vic has arrived in "The Librarian, 1991"?
2. How does Nurse Thornton react to Manx’s “awakening” in "Season's Greetings, December 2008"? What do the doctors observe of his condition?
3. Where does Bing Partridge live and work, according to the narrator in "Spicy Menace, 1990"?
4. What foreshadowing does the narrator allude to when Charlie Manx appears to Bing Partridge in "Spicy Menace, 1990"?
5. Where does Vic find her Tuff Burner bike in "Disappearances, 1991-1996"? What does she do after finding it?
6. What causes the argument between Vic and her mother when Vic has started high school in "Disappearances, 1991-1996"?
7. How is Rory McCombers’ abduction described in "Disappearances, 1991-1996"? Where is Rory kidnapped?
8. How is the little boy in the car described in "Sleigh House, 1996"? Why does Vic approach him?
9. How does the narrator describe Maggie’s appearance in "The Librarian, 1991"?
10. How does the narrator describe the lost object that Vic goes in search of in the beginning of "The Librarian, 1991"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze and discuss the character of Charles Talent Manx in NOS4A2. What information about Charlie’s past does the narrator reveal in the prologue? How is Manx’s condition described by the doctors in the infirmary? What role does Charlie play in the plot of the story?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the divorce of Christopher and Linda McQueen and its impact on Vic. What foreshadowing has the author employed to indicate the impending separation of Chris and Linda? How does Vic react when she learns that her father is gone?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the death of Bing Partridge’s parents in NOS4A2. How did Bing’s mother and father die? Does Bing feel he was responsible for their deaths? What motive would Bing have had for killing his parents?
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