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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. How does Lily feel about guns?

2. What advice does Carrie give Lily?

3. What question doesn't Lily ask Jack after their first night together?

4. How was the bomb detonated?

5. How does Karen Kingsland die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe in detail Lily's thoughts and feelings after the explosion.

2. What do Lily and Carrie discuss when Lily goes to the clinic to clean?

3. What does the reader discover about Lily's past in Chapter Four, and what affect does it have on her relationships with men?

4. Who did both Jack and Lily recognize as the group of men that shot and chased Jack?

5. Explain the conversation that takes place between Lanette and Lily in the church.

6. What part does Lanette Glass play in the meeting at Golgotha Church?

7. How does the intimacy between Lily and Jack affect her at the end of Chapter Six?

8. What injuries does Claude sustain in the explosion and what steps will be taken to care for him?

9. Who has been chasing Jack and why and what have they done to him? Where does Jack run to to take cover after he runs in Chapter Six?

10. What terrible event has happened to Lily and Jack in their pasts?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Now that the turmoil is over, argue how Shakespeare would be a good place for people to reside.

Essay Topic 2

How is Tom David Meicklejohn the worst character of the novel? Does he redeem himself in the end? Defend your answer.

Essay Topic 3

In a persuasive piece, argue how the police force let down the town of Shakespeare. What could and should they have done to make Shakespeare a safer place for everyone?

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