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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 is the real reason Julie wants to stick it out with this case?

2. What hunting animal does Violet meld her mind with?

3. What does Thomas thinks happens to you if you die?

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

5. From what disability does Clint's wife suffer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What pledge does Candy make while he is at his mother's grave?

2. What doe Bobby and Julie think may have happened to the Roman Family?

3. What happened to Mrs. Farris, her daughters, and her brother?

4. What realization does Frank come to based on how he feels after teleporting in the hospital?

5. How does Candy find Frank and Bobby?

6. What experience do Violet and Verbina have with the hawk and how do they share this experience?

7. What did Frank tell Bobby about the places he teleported him and how did Bobby respond?

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

9. What does the jeweler tell Bobby about the red stones?

10. What is Chen's opinion of using the computer to trace the money Frank has?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what way were family relationships described throughout the novel? What relationships seemed to contradict each other? Do you think this was intentional? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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

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