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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. Where do Joanna and Alex fly to from England?

2. What does Herr Doktor say after injecting Joanna with a drug?

3. What does Carrera do to the woman who is at his house?

4. What does some of what Chelgrin has to tell Alex have to do with?

5. What happens the night they arrive at their destination?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Joanna find when she goes to look for Alex? What does she learn from him? What theme might be suggested by the encounter?

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

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

4. In terms of narration what do you think Chapters 60-70 do?

5. What bad decision does Rotenhausen make and how does Joanna use it to save herself?

6. Who is Peterson and how was he involved in the entire situation?

7. What is happening with Alex that might be similar to what was going on with Joanna? What might the reader wonder because of this?

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

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

10. Why did Peterson do what he did and what theme does it touch upon again?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

Alex is delighted with Joanna, with her charm and gentle personality and is unable to get her to say anything that might suggest she is Lisa. The reader might wonder at this point if it is possible Joanna is not Lisa, just a good look alike.

1. What do think makes a person charming? What do you think might be meant by the phrase, "a gentle personality?" Why might Alex consider Joanna to have a gentle personality?Use examples from the book to illustrate your answer.

2. When you read the section when Alex is first trying to get Joanna to say anything that might suggest Joanna is Lisa, what was your opinion of whether she was or wasn't Lisa? Use examples from the book to illustrate your answer.

3. If by chance Joanna was Lisa what do you think are the dangers to her psychologically and emotionally of Alex trying to prod her into admitting it or seeing it? If she has amnesia or has been brainwashed do you think Alex is being irresponsible by trying to push her? Why or why not?

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