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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 found in the treads of the wheelchair?

2. Why does Francis Dolarhyde search his house before he relaxes?

3. What does Graham find where the killer entered at the second victims' house?

4. Who had Graham been investigating just a year before Graham met his wife, Molly?

5. What do the police in Chicago accuse Graham of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is odd about Dolarhyde's speech when he talks to Eileen in Chapter 9?

2. In Chapter 12 what is discovered about the marking that was left in the tree by the killer?

3. Describe the ledger that Dolarhyde uses to put his newspaper clippings in in Chapter 11.

4. What are some of the similarities that Graham lists between the Leeds family and the Jacobi family in Chapter 10?

5. What was Lounds' job when he first started at the Tattler as described in Chapter 16?

6. Describe the conversation Wendy and Graham have at Lounds' gravesite?

7. What does Graham not like about Crawford's plan involving Freddy Lounds in Chapter 17?

8. After Lounds is taken captive by Dolarhyde what is Dolarhyde's response to Lounds' phrase "man to man"?

9. What is determined in regards to the new leads left by the killer from Lounds' murder?

10. What does Dr. Bloom say in Chapter 3 is the reason that the killer breaks the mirrors?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After Dolarhyde eats the painting of the Dragon he tells himself that he can "choose anything now." Explain why this didn't free him as he believed it would. Could this act have freed him had later circumstances been different? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

What does Graham mean when he says that "we make murder, and it matters only to us."? Is this correct? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Dolarhyde says at one point in the story that he can sacrifice people to the Dragon and then go back to Reba and treat her well. Does Dolarhyde believe that he and the Dragon are still completely separate? Is what Dolarhyde feels for Reba love? Explain. If Dolarhyde and the Dragon are "becoming" or are the same entity why can Dolarhyde love Reba but the Dragon want her dead?

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