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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 date marks the anniversary of Susie's murder?

2. How does the Salmon family react to Samuel and Lindsey's engagement?

3. Who is Flora Hernandez?

4. How old is Lindsey when she graduates from college?

5. What does Jack have surgically replaced after he is attacked in the cornfield?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the sinkhole going to be filled?

2. How exactly does Lindsey break into Mr. Harvey's house?

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

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

5. What does Samuel promise to do with the abandoned house he and Lindsey take shelter in after their college graduation?

6. What does Susie realize, while watching from her heaven, about her family after she has entered (and left) Ruth's body?

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

8. While eating apple pie that Ruana brought to the Salmon family, what do Samuel and Lindsey learn about the house they want to fix up?

9. When Jack and Abigail confess that they both see Susie, how do they react?

10. What leads Grandma Lynn to believe that Mr. Harvey is involved in Susie's killing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

Throughout The Lovely Bones, there are many ghosts that come and go throughout the text. is the reader supposed to assume that they are real, or are they being used purely as a literary device? Use evidence from the text to support your argument.

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