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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 does Ross consider the "witching hour?"

2. What does Spencer Pike want Rod van Vleet to put in the strip mall?

3. What does Ross wear on a chain around his neck?

4. Instead of going to the Klifa Club, what does Cissy do?

5. What does Cissy's husband do to Gray Wolf to get him to leave the property?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Eli's wife?

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

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

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

5. What role does jealously play in Cissy's story?

6. What was the Eugenics Survey of Vermont?

7. Describe the insane asylum. How does Cissy react to patients?

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

9. What does Az see that he thinks is a firefly?

10. What 4 conditions does Ross set with Rod to investigate the Pike property?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the love story of Shelby and Eli. How will the connection of these two people unite several families? How will this couple break barriers that still exist?

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