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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 incident happens on the plane that Jeff boards in Sacramento?

2. When does Martin commit suicide?

3. How many years does Jeff relive?

4. What is Jeff walking away from when he leaves that plane that he boarded in Sacramento?

5. What object in Jeff's second relived life is a symbol of shame and guilt.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jeff convince himself he has gone back in time to a different era of his life after his first death?

2. Why does the bridge at Jeff's old boarding school hold such guilt for him? Explain the circumstances.

3. In Chapters 4 and 5, Jeff and his partner make more than $12 million. How do they do this?

4. How does Jeff break up with Sharla in his third replay?

5. Why does Jeff isolate himself on his small farm? How does the farm help him?

6. What is it that Jeff wants more than anything after the realization of his first replay? What's the problem?

7. What does Jeff learn when he and Sharla begin to fight before boarding their plane?

8. What keeps Jeff from connecting with his wife Linda during his first replay?

9. How does Pamela try to prove her replay to a psychiatrist in a previous life? What goes wrong with her attempt and why?

10. Why does Jeff believe that Pamela Phillips is a replayer like himself?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A main character has both good and bad qualities, giving the character dimension. Discuss Jeff's bad qualities. Are the "bad" qualities really bad? Support your answers. Answer the same question for Pamela. How do these qualities add to the plot of the story? Give specific examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Name and discuss three historical events that occurred, which Grimwood references in the book. What role does each event play in the book? Why do you think the author chose these events for his book?

Essay Topic 3

Name and define the five types of conflict. Which conflict prevailed in this novel? Explain the conflict in detail, using both the definition and examples from Replay to support your claims.

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