View a FREE sample

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 ask of Hal?

2. How does Thomas feel about the Bad Thing he can feel?

3. What does Candy notice just as he tears into his prey?

4. What does Hal notice right before Frank is gone?

5. What does Clint do while Bobby and Thomas talk?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is odd about Frank's clothing after he teleports?

2. What does Lisa tell Bobby and Clint about the black sand and what suggestion does she give them?

3. What information do Dr. Manfred and his colleague share with Bobby and Clint about the insect he was to dissect?

4. Where do Frank and Bobby stop after they jump from place to place trying to stay away from Candy and what does Bobby come to see and realize about this place?

5. What do the Phans tell Bobby and Julie about George Farris?

6. What does Thomas know about the Bad Thing and what does he do when he senses it close?

7. What happens when Hal begins to hear flute-like music?

8. How does Candy find Frank and Bobby?

9. What promise does Dr. Manfred make to Clint?

10. What special gift do Violet and Verbina share?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways were disabilities used in the novel? Were they positively or negatively depicted? Support your answer with specific examples from the reading.

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

Which characters in the novel were portrayed as victims? Do you agree with this portrayal? Which characters do you believe were truly not victims and made their own decisions? On what do you base this assertion?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 653 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample