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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 many holes did Mitch count in the backrest?

2. What movie is mentioned in Chapter 39?

3. What did Mitch see in Anson's eyes?

4. What was in the detective's eyes at the end of Chapter 53?

5. What were the three letters on the bottom of the cartridge?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Holly feel when she was eating the chocolate bar, and why was this?

2. What is Holly concerned about regarding her baby?

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

4. How does the Lexus Mitch attempts to steal almost become his undoing?

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

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

7. At what point did Mitch feel close to Holly, and how was he affected by this?

8. What did Holly represent to Mitch?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Mitch and Iggy's views on marriage. Which character's view do you most identify with and why? Who makes the more convincing argument, and what specific points lend strength to it?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Anson's betrayal of Mitch. How did Koontz set the reader up to take this information, and how did the reader react to Anson's order of the hit on Mitch? What specific things led the reader to seriously believe Mitch was going to gain some aid from his brother?

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