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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 information does Eve O'Donnell not want to tell Ross, the ghost hunter?

2. How does Cissy get permission from her husband to have Gray Wolf be around her house?

3. When Shelby and Ethan think it is snowing, what is falling from the sky?

4. What does Spencer do in his office at night?

5. Why does Cissy believe that her husband married her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the first time that rose petals are introduced in the story?

2. How did the Abenaki lose their land?

3. How does Cissy show strength when she hires Gray Wolf?

4. Why does Meredith believe that Lucy is psychotic?

5. What does the medication do for Lucy when she sees her ghosts?

6. What are Ross's thoughts of suicide?

7. Who write HELP on the mirror?

8. Why does Spencer tell Cissy he fired Gray Wolf?

9. How does Ross avoid his sister after the night at the hospital?

10. Why does Cissy seem certain that she is going to die when the baby arrives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Henry Perkins was a real person who started the Eugenics Survey of Vermont, but Harry Beaumont and Spencer Pike are fictional. How does this affect the story for you to know that this really happened and that there were real people who did this kind of work?

Essay Topic 2

How is the mystery finally solved? Would the ghost returning to tell the story have been enough? Why?

Essay Topic 3

What does it mean when Eli's mother talked to him about "passing?" From the information in the novel, can you tell what this was? What was his mother trying to do? What price do you think Eli paid for his mother's beliefs? Was he also protected by her beliefs? How?

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