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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 does the older man who works with Simon demand Jem be searched for?

2. How does Karen look when she gets to the church?

3. How long does the rector's wife have to live?

4. What does Jem do when Spider arrives at the church?

5. Why does Jem think the police will frame her for the bombing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does this book end?

2. Why does Jem say she hates her mother?

3. How does Jem stop the people in the church from clamoring around her?

4. Why does Jem decide to tell Karen about her gift?

5. What brings Jem to understand a bit of her mother's dependency on drugs?

6. Why do Jem and Spider look so guilty to the police?

7. What does Jemma demand in return for her story to the police?

8. What major change came over Jem in the hospital?

9. What does Jem use the church keys to do?

10. Why does Jem reject the idea of turning herself into the police?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was Jem's ability, and how did it shape her life for good and bad?

Essay Topic 2

Personal identity is one of the main themes in this book. Where did this theme appear, and how did its inclusion in the novel shape the course of the plot?

Essay Topic 3

This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings and how they affected the course of the plot. Why might Rachel Ward have chosen these particular settings?

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