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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 did Aimee do for a living?
2. What name does Gray Wolf call Cissy?
3. What does the tribal name Abenaki mean?
4. What evidence does Ross show to Rod from his ghost hunting?
5. Why did Spencer Pike decide to stop heralding the pedigree charts as the main thrust of the Vermont eugenics movement?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Shelby live with her son? What kind of life is this? What does Shelby believe about her life?
2. What is Az's belief about suicide?
3. As the residents of Comtosook begin to experience weird happenings, what do Shelby, Rod and Spencer Pike all experience?
4. What role does jealously play in Cissy's story?
5. What job does Ross have with the Warburtons and what are the Warburtons looking for when they do an investigation?
6. What was the Eugenics Survey of Vermont?
7. Do you think the program outlined in Chapter 6 is a real program? Why? Why not?
8. What evidence was found at the murder scene of Cissy?
9. What does Ross believe about his own power to die? Why does he carry these beliefs with him?
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
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
Explain Shelby's fascination with words. How does she use this as a cover to protect herself? How is it a sign of her loneliness?
Essay Topic 3
Spencer says in the novel that some women are meant to change the world and others are meant to hold it together. What does he mean by this? What does this say about his views toward women?
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