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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 old is Lindsey when she graduates from college?

2. Who is the last person in the Salmon family to think that Mr. Harvey had something to do with Susie's death?

3. What does Susie, while in Ruth's body, tell Ray to read?

4. After Lindsey breaks into Mr. Harvey's house and Abigail calls Detective Fenerman, where do Abigail and Fenerman meet?

5. Where does Mr. Harvey live after he leaves his house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Susie know her way around Hal's bike shop?

2. What does Susie confess to Ray as he prepares to go visit the sinkhole before it is to be filled in?

3. Why is riding the trains comforting to Susie?

4. What is bothering Jack while he is helping Lindsey learn how to shave her legs?

5. Why does Mr. Harvey feel he has to leave town after Lindsey breaks into his house?

6. Who is Mr. O'Dwyer?

7. What can Susie physically feel that lets her know she is in Ruth's body?

8. As the neighbors are gathering for Susie's one-year memorial, what does Lindsey ask of her mother?

9. What is Buckley's short story about?

10. Years after Susie's murder, what does Mr. Harvey dream of when he feels threatened?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do you think the name of the book means? Use at least three examples (or characters) from the text to support your hypothesis.

Essay Topic 2

Detective Fenerman and the police department play a significant role in the story in The Lovely Bones, even if that role is made significant by their inaction. Discuss 1) how an author can use authority figures in a text, 2) how/if an author relies upon an inherent trust between the reader and authority figures, and 3) at least three ways the relationship between a reader and a text's authority figures can be manipulated (positively or negatively) in a story line.

Essay Topic 3

Susie's entering Ruth's body and then making love to Ray makes the leap from fiction to fantasy. Write an argument explaining why this leap does or does not work with the text and what literary devices Sebold uses to make the leap.

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