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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 Kayla decide to do for the rest of the day?
2. When does Kayla have another vision?
3. What does Kayla think has caused her family life to deteriorate?
4. Where does Kayla find a job?
5. Why does Amber have to go with her parents?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Kayla learn Amber has done on the morning of Kayla's seventeenth birthday?
2. What is the proposal Senator David Young opposes? What do those who support the proposal say about Young's opposition?
3. According to Ashley, what is the hospital doing?
4. What does Kayla read about Louden Waters?
5. Which club is Kayla trying to find? Who takes her there?
6. Why is Gene Drake shot and killed?
7. What does Kayla ask the guidance counselor concerning his tattoo? What is his reply?
8. What does Allyson say about insurance companies and genetic coding?
9. What vision does Kayla have when she is cleaning the blood stains from the bathtub?
10. Why are Amber and her parents living in the Route Nine Motor Inn?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The Bar Code Tattoo is one book in a series of novels involving Kayla Reed and many of the same characters in this story. What are some advantages and disadvantages of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Do you prefer to read a standalone book or a book series? Why? Justify your answers.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Weyn's use of literary devices (such as foreshadowing, cliffhangers, deux ex machina,) and how they add or detract from the story. Does Weyn use too many or too few literary techniques? Explain.
Essay Topic 3
The Bar Code Tattoo belongs to the science fiction genre. Define the literary term "genre." What are advantages and disadvantages to labeling a text by genre? What are similarities between different genres?
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