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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 Odd say that he doesn't long for?

2. What does Odd realize the bullet wound on Robertson's chest has gone through?

3. What does Viola say she did see in her dream in Chapter 24?

4. What does Shamus say was found in the freezer of a practicing satanist he knew who claimed to have hated his mother?

5. What does Odd find in his bathroom in Chapter 31?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conversation does Odd and Stormy have in Chapter 45?

2. What does Odd suspect about Cymry?

3. What does Odd explain in Chapter 35 he now knows about Robertson that he hadn't understood earlier when he went to Robertson's house?

4. Explain what happens in Chapter 42 when Odd hands the strange card from Robertson to the nurse at the hospital.

5. Explain what Odd does with the body and his reasoning behind it.

6. What does Shamus tell Odd about the card?

7. What does Odd find at the abandoned church when he goes there to hide Robertson's body?

8. What does Odd find when he reexamines Robertson's body?

9. Explain what Odd decides to do after he finds Robertson's body in his bathroom.

10. What does Karla say happened before the chief was shot?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This story is the first in the series.

Part 1) Which of the subplots in the story will be continued over to the next in the series?

Part 2) Which of the characters in the story seem to be characters that the author would want to use again in the series? Which of the characters will most likely not bee seen again in the story?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Stormy.

Part 1) Why is it that Stormy refuses to stay home from work even though she has been very worried about Odd?

Part 2) Is there any indication that Stormy may regret her choice?

Part 3) What does it say about Stormy that she was willing to get a tattoo so that she and Odd had matching birthmarks?

Essay Topic 3

Pick one of the following to write about.

Part 1) Is there any indication that the prostitute at the church left after Odd spoke to her.

Part 2) Is it possible, or is there any indication that the coyotes that surrounded Odd at the church may have been influenced by something such as the bodachs?

Part 3) Speculate on what happened to Robertson after his group's plans were thwarted.

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