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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 Nedra say on television about Kayla?

2. What does the old woman whom Kayla encounters do?

3. For what does Kayla exchange her hospital gown?

4. What does Kayla smell when she approaches a cabin in the woods?

5. What is Kayla hoping to find behind the building that she comes upon in the woods?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Kayla and Mfumbe get a ride heading north? Why do they eventually have to give up the ride?

2. After Kayla says goodbye to Katie, she goes to a diner. What does Kayla see on the diner's television?

3. What prevents Mava and Tova from moving to Canada?

4. How does Kayla explain her need to use the e-card to the waitress in the diner?

5. Where do Kayla and Mfumbe arrive after three weeks? What visions does Kayla have there?

6. What does Kayla find as she follows a stream in the woods?

7. What does Kayla dream while sleeping in the woods?

8. Who finds Kayla? What does this person tell Kayla?

9. What does Kayla write to Amber?

10. Why is Kayla sorry she used the computer where she is staying?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Often, authors will write about "what they know." So, sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the book more interesting. Research Suzanne Weyn, the author of The Bar Code Tattoo. What events in Weyn's background may have helped her in writing The Bar Code Tattoo? What may have influenced the way she depicts various characters and scenes? Give textual evidence for support.

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

Analyze one major theme of The Bar Code Tattoo. How is the theme expressed through symbolism? Characters' behaviors? Action?

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