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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 happens during the night?

2. Where does the phone number on the lawyer's letter ring?

3. Why does Alex not want to rush their relationship?

4. Why does Mariko think Joanna should see a psychiatrist?

5. What does Alex suspect when he enters his motel room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Carrera learn about Joanna from a phone call and how does he respond? What might the reader deduce from this response?

2. What do you think the episode with Wayne shows about the people who kidnapped Lisa?

3. What does Alex do at the hospital, who does he call, and what does he tell that person?

4. Why is Alex in Japan and why did he stay?

5. What has happened to Wayne Kennedy and how is he reacting to it?

6. What does Alex show Joanna and how does she feel about it?

7. How is the tension increased by the end of Chapter 17?

8. Where does Alex go with Joanna and what becomes clear to them about her?

9. Emotionally, how might the reader respond to the malice Carrera seems to carry?

10. Who comes to the hospital and sits with Wayne and why do you think this person does that?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Inamura then takes Joanna to the room where her nightmares take place. She begins to have a panic attack and Inamura says he believes it is the result of a post hypnotic suggestion. After some research on hypnosis choose one of the following questions:

1. What is hypnosis and why might it help Joanna? Use examples from the text and your research to support your answer.

2. Do you think hypnosis and post hypnotic suggestions could cause panic attacks? Why or why not?

3. Based on your research how realistic was the situation with Inamura portrayed? Use examples to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Under further regression, Joanna also reveals that all her memories of Lisa Chelgrin are gone and that she will most likely never recover them. The completeness of this brainwashing should be frightening to the reader, showing how vulnerable Lisa Chelgrin was and how violating Herr Doktor was toward her, both physically and mentally.

1. What do you think is the emotional impact of finding out you are not who you thought you were? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Discuss in depth the moral and legal implications of what Herr Doktor did to Lisa. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. It would be one thing to find out you were a different person than you thought you were. What would be the farther impact on Lisa of finding out that not only was she a different person than she thought but that her early memories are completely gone so she'll never know exactly who she was?

Essay Topic 3

Thomas Chelgrin is introduced for the first time despite having been discussed several times between Alex and Joanna. The reader believes Chelgrin to be an evil man who orchestrated his own daughter's kidnapping. However, when the reader meets Chelgrin, he is almost sympathetic, as though he is as much a victim as his daughter.

1. What were your first impressions of Thomas Chelgrin and how did they change after his encounter with Lisa? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. Why do you think Thomas Chelgrin might have been a victim? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

3. Now that the reader knows how much Thomas Chelgrin has given up in his life for his country would you think him very patriotic? Why or why not? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

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