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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 Monica's daughter ask Harry before he leaves the house?

2. What does Harry call on to use to kill the Scorpion while in the elevator?

3. What does the little man say that he is when Harry accuses him of being the killer?

4. What does Harry say that he is doing in chapter eighteen when he asks himself what he is doing?

5. In chapter eighteen where does Harry walk to while thinking of everyone that has died?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the photographer tell Harry about what he knows in chapter nineteen?

2. Describe the conversation that takes place between Monica's daughter and Harry as he leaves Monica's house.

3. What does Harry find when he enters his office in chapter twenty-two?

4. What does Harry decide when Murphy asks him to tell her what he knows and what he is keeping hidden in chapter fifteen?

5. Describe what happens when the figure of the killer appears to Harry outside his apartment in chapter fourteen?

6. What does Monica say about her sister and her sister's death?

7. What does Harry realize in chapter thirteen when he awakens to a thunderstorm?

8. What does Harry see at Victor's house when he opens his Third Eye?

9. What happens when Harry first arrives at Marcone's club?

10. What happens when Harry tells Susan to drink the escape potion in the lab?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the importance of family relationships.

Part 1) What family relationships are seen in the story?

Part 2) Which of these seems to have the largest impact on the characters in the story or to be the most important? Explain your answer.

Part 3) How is the Beckitt's love for their daughter viewed differently than Monica Sells's love for her children?

Essay Topic 2

Comic relief is often used as an important literary tool in a story.

Part 1) What characters in the story provide comic relief?

Part 2) How would the story have changed without these moments of comic relief?

Essay Topic 3

Part 1) What well known superstitions and myths did the author use in his book that most people would be familiar with? An example of this might be that vampires don't like day light.

Part 2) What in the book was unique to Jim Butcher's world? Are these differences easy to understand and grasp?

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