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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. How does Amanda respond to Blair's story about the seance?

2. Who goes into a trance during the seance?

3. Who will be out of the house on initiation day?

4. What causes Amanda to ask Mr. Golanski so many questions?

5. When was the Westerly House built?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Molly respond to all the talk about a poltergeist?

2. What does Amanda study at the library and why?

3. How does David feel when Mr. Golanski comes to the house?

4. What led Molly to call Mr. Golanski?

5. What connection does Mr. Golanski have with the Westerly House?

6. What is the first thing about the Westerly house that interests Amanda?

7. What ability does David think Mr. Golanksi has?

8. What causes Tesser to sleep in Molly's bed?

9. Why does Amanda say that the poltergeist has returned to the house?

10. What stopped the trouble from the original Poltergeist in the Westerly House?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the Stanleys accomplish their ordeals and what does this indicate about them?

Essay Topic 2

Comic relief was a literary tool used well by Zilpha Keatley Snyder in this book. What are some of the key examples of this, and how did these scenes affect the plot of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Despair was a theme that was placed in a number of sensitive places in this plot. What are some of these places, and what role did despair play in this play?

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