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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 awakens Joanna the next morning after her second session with Inamura?

2. When they arrive at the hotel, about what does Alex have a premonition?

3. Why does the woman in the room where Joanna wakes up after being kidnapped laugh when she tells Joanna her name?

4. What does Joanna receive?

5. What does Joanna do when Rotenhausen unstraps her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Alex and Joanna's hotel room and what might this suggest to the reader?

2. How do Alex and Joanna leave London and what happens that surprises Alex? What does this make him suspect?

3. What does Chelgrin know about his daughter and what does he seem to feel about her?

4. What happens to Joanna and Alex when they arrive in St. Moritz? What does Peterson have to do with it and what might a reader be wondering at this point?

5. Where does Alex go after he wakes up and what happens there?

6. How is the theme of romance explored in Chapters 42-44?

7. What else do they discover while Lisa is under hypnosis?

8. How might a reader respond to what is going on with Alex and what is the evidence to suggest that Alex and Joanna are being manipulated?

9. Where is Alex when he wakes up and what does he do immediately? What does he find and what does it make him wonder?

10. Where is Peterson in Chapters 53-59, what does he witness, and what might the reader wonder about him because of his behavior?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the character pairs below to compare and contrast. Include in the essay a comparison of their personalities, their values and morals, how they view the world, what good and bad exist in each that are the same and different and how they behave in the situations in the book.

1. Joanna and Lisa Chelgrin.

2. Joanna and Mariko.

3. Alex and Carrera.

Essay Topic 2

Joanna encourages Mariko to explore a relationship with Wayne despite the Japanese mindset that is against these types of relationships.

1. After doing research on Japanese culture and women, discuss the ways in which Mariko adheres to gender expectations and ways in which she doesn't.

2. The Japanese culture is against any relationship which involves a Japanese person and a person of another ethnic race or culture. Why do you think a culture would evolve such a stricture? Do you think that informal expectation has changed with the shrinking of the world through the internet and easy travel between parts of the world?

3. Discuss why you believe Mariko should follow her heart and not her culture. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Joanna is plagued by a recurring nightmare in which a man with a mechanical hand uses a hypodermic needle to do something unclear to her. Joanna always wakes from this dream in the grip of a panic. It seems Joanna is uninterested in learning the truth about the dream, perhaps afraid of finding out something she does not want to know.

1. Why do you think Joanna doesn't want to find out the cause of her nightmares? Use examples from the text and your own thoughts to support your answer.

2. Do you think nightmares always have a cause? Why or why not?

3. Describe a recurring nightmare you or someone you know has had. Compare it to Joanna's. How do you or the person having the nightmare deal with it?

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