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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Jerome Skinner suspicious?
(a) He does not believe the group is free of deviations.
(b) He does not believe David and Petra are siblings.
(c) He does not believe Sally and Katherine could have heard Petra screaming.
(d) He does not believe Petra was attacked by a beast.

2. What does David learn about Petra after her second emergency situation?
(a) Her ability to transmit thought-shapes is unusually strong.
(b) She is unable to send or receive thought-shapes.
(c) She refuses to transmit thought-shapes at all.
(d) She is frightened by the idea of transmitting thought-shapes.

3. David, Petra, and Rosalind flee in which direction?
(a) Northeast.
(b) Southwest.
(c) Northwest.
(d) Southeast.

4. What is the subject of the letter Anne leaves behind when she dies?
(a) Anne admits to murdering her husband.
(b) Anne denounces the telepathics, including herself.
(c) Anne describes being attacked by Fringes people.
(d) Anne outlines her plan to run away.

5. Old Jacob tells David that the only way to cleanse deviations, even those in people, is to do what?
(a) Pray over them.
(b) Burn them.
(c) Exile them.
(d) Cure them with medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Sally transmits to the group, what does she inform them?

2. The woman from Sealand emphasizes the importance of whom?

3. According to the sermons David’s father delivers, what is the mutant?

4. According to David, Petra is communicating with someone from which land while they are on the run?

5. What does the group of telepathics fear regarding Katherine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Petra say the people of Sealand think about those who could make thought-shapes?

2. How did the relationship between Rosalind and David grow? What stood in their way?

3. When David and Petra meet up with Rosalind, what does she have with her? Who helped her prepare her escape?

4. What happens the second time Petra is in grave danger?

5. Why is Anne’s marriage a problem for David and the other telepathics?

6. Besides Rosalind, who are the other members of David’s group of telepathics and where do they live?

7. According to old Jacob, why is it ok to kill a Deviation?

8. After Harriet's visit, what does David pray for at night? Why?

9. How do David's parents react to the reason for Harriet's visit? What happens to Harriet as a result?

10. As David moved through the Wild Country, what sorts of things does he see there?

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