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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 the name of Nurse Thornton’s son who she is considering buying a video game system for in "Season's Greetings, December 2008"?

2. When Vic escapes Charlie Manx’s home in "Sleigh House, 1996," she runs and hails down a driver on the road who is driving what?

3. How is Vic McQueen’s bike described in "Disappearances, 1991-1996"?

4. What is extraordinary about the little boy’s breath in the car in "Sleigh House, 1996"?

5. What are the glimmering objects that Vic sees in the trees surrounding the white house in "Sleigh House, 1996"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Vic go in search of when she crosses the Shorter Way Bridge and finds the Library in "The Librarian, 1991"?

2. How does Vic find help in her escape in "Sleigh House, 1996"? Who helps Vic?

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

4. 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?

5. What does Charlie Manx say to Nurse Thornton when he speaks in "Season's Greetings, December 2008"?

6. How does the narrator describe the lost object that Vic goes in search of in the beginning of "The Librarian, 1991"?

7. How are the trees and car described that Vic encounters on “The Other End of the Bridge” in "Sleigh House, 1996"?

8. Where does Vic first see Charlie Manx in "Sleigh House, 1996"? Where does Vic run to flee?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the character of Mr. Eugley and examine his reaction to seeing Vic in the school hallway. What is remarkable about Vic’s appearance that shocks Mr. Eugley? How does Mr. Eugley’s psychological breakdown cause Vic internal conflict?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the characters of Christopher and Linda McQueen in the novel. How would you describe Vic’s relationship with her parents in "Shorter Way, 1986-1989"? Is Vic closer to her mother or father? How does this change?

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