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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. Who does Jenny confide in?

2. What other building has a similar oddity?

3. What communications are still working?

4. Who is the career military man?

5. Where does the group gather?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the suspect, Fletcher Kale presume during his interrogation, and why?

2. What is the first thing that Bryce Hammond rules out?

3. Why does Talber Whitman worry about his friend Bryce during this interrogation?

4. When Tal starts to speak in the market, what happens?

5. What is so disturbing and fearful for young deputy Gordy Brogan?

6. What circumstances disturb Jenny about their findings at Tom and Karen Oxley's home?

7. Where do they discover the housekeeper, Hilda, and what is odd about her?

8. What conditions do Lisa and Jennifer discover in the house next door that are odd and out of place?

9. Why does Bryce decide that the group should split up on the way to the Oxley residence?

10. How is Lisa's analysis of the creatures' intelligence reinforced and when?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What exactly is the Ancient Enemy? What reason does it have for its behavior? How does it view the human race? Why is it likely that it feels superior to the human race? How does it view Timothy Flyte in the beginning and why? What offer does it make to Timothy Flyte and how does it communicate this offer directly to him? Why is it important to the Ancient Enemy that Flyte be present and what does the entity hope to gain from his presence?

Essay Topic 2

What is consistent about most of the bodies that are found in Snowfield? How do they defy any normal logic that as a doctor, Jennifer might apply? What is immediately noticeable about most of these bodies? Which ones are different in condition in the town and where are they found? How are those three people killed? Why is it likely that the Liebermann's bodies are never found? How is that consistent with the rest of the missing townspeople?

Essay Topic 3

What are the crimes Fletcher Kale has committed? Why did he commit them? What does he realize on his way to the courthouse, and how does that affect his behavior? What drastic action does he take at this stage to regain his freedom? What information does he learn that leads him to the perfect hideout? What earlier ties does he have to this property? After arriving, what does he discover that leads him to believe his life has a purpose and ironically would have made his other crimes unnecessary had he discovered this first?

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