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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 is the best piece of business?

2. What color was in the laundry room?

3. Where does Holly end up putting the nail for safekeeping and quick access?

4. What hadn't Holly done that caused Mitch to think something was wrong?

5. What kind of car did Mitch attempt to steal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Mitch's vows mean to him?

2. Who does Holly keep thinking about? What gives her an idea?

3. What is Holly concerned about regarding her baby?

4. How was money not an object for Thomas Turnbridge? What did he do with the money?

5. What does Mitch do to Anson?

6. What did Mitch originally fear? What did he fear now and why?

7. Why couldn't Holly be too interested in what the kidnapper that she didn't like had to say?

8. Why couldn't Holly put the nail in her pocket or in her shoe?

9. Why would no one driving past Mitch fail to give him special scrutiny?

10. Why does Mitch look at his hands, and what does he expect to see?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Taggarts' ensnarement of Mitch through information. How was this likely to happen, considering the amount of sleep Mitch had gotten? What information had led Taggart to take a closer look at Mitch to begin with? Was his suspicion correct?

Essay Topic 2

Speculate on the purpose of Mitch's visit to his parent's place. Why was he wishing to speak to his mother? Why didn't he explain what was happening to him to his father? What characteristic made Mitch's mother a more likely choice for conversation?

Essay Topic 3

What did Jimmy Null mean when he asked Holly if she was a seeker? What was the point of the stories? Speculate on what he would have offered Holly had she said yes to the option of transcendence.

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