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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. The wind of a storm should be captured in a/an ______, heated on the belly, and mixed with another ingredient before being given to a starving boy.

2. _________ leave the room with the unnamed men, via a wire.

3. The wind begins to grow stronger, and it jerks ________ upwards.

4. ________ uses language that sounds like mathematics jargon to maintain that a girl burned in water is the key to a system.

5. A _______ that moves at the speed of the sky is invisible and can lodge itself in the father.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the reasoning behind the woolen scarf being warm by an animal?

2. What happens when the boy decides to pray to the bird, according to the story?

3. How is 'arm' described in Biology?

4. What happens to make a dog feel less hungry, according to the story's description?

5. What is the only way that a person can escape from a dog?

6. What is the process of work, as used in the description of the process of welding?

7. What are some of the names of those parts of the brain that are able to resist the bird calls?

8. What are the three things that the author points out as having affected the horse populations?

9. How does the author define the idea of religion in this section of the book?

10. What is the cycle of the boy who walks the earth in this section of the story?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Living are described as people who seem to put their hands in something unseen and too heavy to lift.

Part 1: What do you think Marcus means when he talks about the living?

Part 2: Do you think that you are a part of the Living? Why or why not?

Part 3: Who do you think should not be a part of the Living? Why?

Essay Topic 2

The violence the author includes seems to be used to shock the reader, rather than to add to the book's strength.

Part 1: Is there ever a place for violence in a book? What purpose can it serve?

Part 2: How do you feel about the section on a family witnessing an intruder coming into the home and then killing themselves?

Part 3: Do you think that the author has a personal experience with an intruder committing suicide?

Essay Topic 3

The brain is divided into nine different loaves, some of which are able to resist bird calls.

Part 1: What is the significance of the number 'nine' in this description of the brain?

Part 2: Do you think the brain is as fragmented as the author describes?

Part 3: How do you think the brain might be separated in real life?

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