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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. Where does Bing Partridge work in "Spicy Menace, 1990"?

2. When Vic is in her senior year of high school, her mother walks in on Vic sleeping in bed with whom, in "Disappearances, 1991-1996"?

3. What is the nickname that Vic McQueen is called by her father in the novel?

4. What are the letters on the Scrabble tile earrings that Maggie wears in "The Librarian, 1991"?

5. How old is Bing Partridge in "Spicy Menace, 1990"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advertisement is described in the beginning of "Spicy Menace, 1990"?

2. What are Vic’s first impressions of the house that she finds at “The Other End of the Bridge” in "Sleigh House, 1996"?

3. What happens to Vic when she returns from the Library across the Shorter Way Bridge in "The Librarian, 1991"?

4. How does the narrator describe Charlie Manx’s history in "Season's Greetings, December 2008"?

5. What causes the argument between Vic and her mother when Vic has started high school in "Disappearances, 1991-1996"?

6. How does Maggie introduce herself and the setting where Vic has arrived in "The Librarian, 1991"?

7. Where does Bing Partridge live and work, according to the narrator in "Spicy Menace, 1990"?

8. How is Vic’s condition described after she crosses back over the Shorter Way Bridge following the retrieval of the bracelet in "Shorter Way, 1986-1989"?

9. Where does Vic arrive when she crosses the Shorter Way Bridge to look for her father’s lost object in "The Librarian, 1991"? Who witnesses her there?

10. Whose disappearance is described first in "Disappearances, 1991-1996"? Where does this abduction take place?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the character of Nurse Ellen Thornton and her encounter with Charles Manx in the “Prologue: Season’s Greetings, December 2008.” What does Charlie say to Nurse Thornton? How does Nurse Thornton tend to regard her patients in the prison infirmary? How is she affected by her encounter with Manx?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Charlie Manx’s offer to Bing Partridge in "Spicy Menace, 1990." How frequently does Charlie say he brings a child to Christmasland? How does Charlie describe Christmasland? What does Charlie tell Bing they are saving the children from? How does Charlie ask Bing to prepare for their work together?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Wayne Carmody in "Bad Mother, December 16, 2011-July 6, 2012." How old is Wayne in the beginning of the chapter? What is Wayne’s relationship like with his father? What is his relationship like with Vic?

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