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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 the Vermont state motto?

2. What name does Gray Wolf call Cissy?

3. What kind of disease does Ethan have?

4. When Ross hears the pennies hit the floor in Eve's attic, who does he call out for?

5. What do the workers who work on the strip mall report seeing and hearing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Shelby overreact when she can't find Ross and Ethan?

2. What was the Eugenics Survey of Vermont?

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

4. In Ross's experience, when a parent loses a child, why do they call a ghost hunter?

5. How did the Abenaki lose their land?

6. On the first ghost hunting case of the novel, what is Eve O'Donnell's description of what is happening in her house?

7. How does Chapter 5 open?

8. As the residents of Comtosook begin to experience weird happenings, what do Shelby, Rod and Spencer Pike all experience?

9. What, according to Spencer's lectures, does he believe about African Americans?

10. Why does Spencer take his wife to a New York doctor?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the author add important information about the case? Do you think the old newspaper clippings, police reports and interviews help or hurt the story line? Why?

Essay Topic 2

How is Meredith's work different from Spencer's?

Essay Topic 3

What are the descriptions from Spencer's lecture about African Americans? What does he say about the Missing Link? How were you surprised by the information in his lectures? Do you think these were real thoughts and ideas? What would this be thought of as today?

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