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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 Frank find in his hands when he wakes up in the car?

2. Why does Candy pray to his mother?

3. What does Frank look for when he finally feels safe?

4. What does Julie like to do after visiting Thomas to bring up her spirits?

5. Why do Julie, Bobby and Frank meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Thomas try to tell Julie when she visited him and how did this work for him?

2. What is Candy appalled to learn from Violet?

3. What is Candy doing when he leaves his house and what part is he doing to please his mother?

4. What do Bobby and Julie find out that Rasmussen is up to in Decodyne?

5. How does Frank try to rationalize his inability to sleep and then what does he eventually admit is the true reason for this inability?

6. How is Bobby feeling about his wife and how does he handle these feelings?

7. Why does Frank want to leave the alleyway?

8. How does Bobby's dream about Julie change from the start where it is the ideal life in their new home?

9. Describe both of Candy's sisters.

10. What does Julie see when she drives toward Bobby and what does she do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Did Doc Fogarty behave appropriately? Why? What would you have done if you were the doctor?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the novel, many different characters had their own dreams. Choose three characters, describe their dreams, and their ability to achieve them. What idea about dreams is the reader left with at the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

In what ways did the author foreshadow events throughout the novel? Was the foreshadowing effective? Why or why not?

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