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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's family chart does Cissy find in her husband's office?

2. What does Eli take from Spencer's room?

3. Who's name does Ross carve into his arm?

4. What does Ross fake at the Pike Property?

5. Who did Cissy's mom fall in love with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significance of Canadian toddler who fell asleep in snow?

2. Who is Ruby referring to when she talks about someone she knew who was a sleepwalker?

3. How does Ross explain to Eli how much he loves Lia?

4. What is Spencer's story about the night of Cissy's death?

5. What does the baby poop prove?

6. What did Eli's mom mean by "passing?"

7. Why does Eli want to hire Ross?

8. What does the murder case of Cissy Pike get Eli thinking about? How does her death relate to him?

9. What does Ethan tell Lucy about their conditions?

10. Why does Ruby throw the card game with Ross?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

How did the coming of Hitler kill the Eugenics movement in the United States?

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