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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 flourished during the author's time at Wesleyan?

2. Is Johanna excited about the Mind Control program?

3. What gets the author through her childhood and adulthood?

4. What does Johanna become very skilled in by working with Mind Control?

5. Where does her faith and roots of Christianity come from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Johanna rely on while being attacked by other school children?

2. What are the two forms that Jesus appears to Johanna?

3. Pachita goes by two different names. What are those names?

4. What type of schooling did Johanna receive?

5. What happens to be the real truth concerning Pachita's work?

6. Who does Johanna become very close to as a young girl?

7. What is the double meaning for the words "Mind Control."

8. What is the overall tone and feeling of Johanna's childhood?

9. As a young student, Johanna tampers with a Ouija Board. What does she believe about the board?

10. What is situated on Pachita's alter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Compare North Carolina Chapel Hill to Wesleyan College.

2. Why does Johanna choose to switch universities?

3. Does changing schools improve Johanna's life? How does the torture of Johanna continue on throughout her time at both universities?

Essay Topic 2

Ultimately, Johanna comes to believe that the theater is related to occult-like behavior.

1. How do Johanna's personal experiences in theaters, cause her to draw this conclusion?

2. Describe two specific events that Johanna has in theaters.

3. Who else from the book would agree with Johanna's assertions?

Essay Topic 3

There are extremely distinct style and tone shifts throughout Johanna's narrative.

1. State the four different styles that Johanna shifts between.

2. What sections have which tones associated with them?

3. How does Johanna weave her tale but also concisely change the tone of the novel?

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