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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 Meredith take Lucy to when Lucy is seeing visions at night?

2. How many Abenaki populated the earth at the height of their existence?

3. What kind of picture does Ross carry in his wallet?

4. What does Ethan have visions of in the night?

5. When Cissy is caught visiting with Gray Wolf, what does she tell her husband she is doing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How did the Abenaki lose their land?

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

7. Why does Meredith believe that Lucy is psychotic?

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

9. What are Ross's thoughts of suicide?

10. What does Ross believe about his own power to die? Why does he carry these beliefs with him?

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

What is significance of burial ceremony for Cissy and baby? Why is it important to Az? Why is it important to Eli?

Essay Topic 3

How does Ross know about Meredith's car accident? Is it the same as his?

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