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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. Why is the narrator's father frustrated by the time they reach home from the police headquarters?
2. What words describe the demeanor of the narrator's father on the ride home from the police headquarters?
3. What term does the narrator use to describe the students at his school?
4. How does the narrator's father describe Mr. Shears?
5. Who tells the narrator that his mother has gone to heaven?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the purpose of Chapter 199?
2. How is the novel that the narrator is writing similar to that of the Sherlock Holmes novel Hounds of the Baskervilles? How is it different?
3. What does Mrs. Anderson reveal to Christopher about his mother in Chapter 97?
4. Does Christopher believe in heaven? Why or Why not? Whose opinion about heaven does he seek and what do they tell him?
5. How does Christopher alert Siobhan that he knows about his Mother and Mr. Shears? And what advice does she give him about the new information that he has?
6. Why is Father upset with Christopher in Chapter 79?
7. What series of events causes Christopher and his mother to head back to Swindon?
8. Mother gives Christopher more insight into her relationship with Mr. Shears. How does her relationship with Mr. Shears develop?
9. What does Christopher tell Mr. Jeavons about Terry? And why is it significant that he reveals his conversation with Terry?
10. How is Christopher's memory like a video player? And how is it different?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the author use foreshadowing in the novel? What is his purpose for using foreshadowing? Why is it necessary to use foreshadowing in a mystery? Please use examples from the book to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Why does Christopher not tell Father that he knows about Mother leaving with Mr. Shears? Why does Christopher not tell his Father that he has written about this in his novel? Why does Christopher not tell his father that he has found Mother's letters? Does he think father will be upset that Christopher knows this information? Please use examples from the book to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Why does the novel end so suddenly, unlike the start of the novel which takes a while to build? Please discuss the novel's pace and use examples from the book to support your answer.
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