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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. In “Where Life Lives On,” what is the name of the website?

2. What scares Hope about her baby?

3. What does the man living below Blandine look at?

4. In “Variables,” what is James Yager's profession?

5. How does James make Tiffany feel?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did Jack's, Todd's, and Malik's animal sacrifices start?

2. What does Blandine become when she exits her body?

3. What scares Hope about her baby?

4. What does Blandine wish she could do?

5. What does Tiffany hear James play?

6. When James drives Tiffany home, what happens?

7. What is Joan Kowalski screening on the website?

8. In “Where Life Lives On,” what is the name of the website?

9. Why does Joan's boss scold her?

10. How does James make Tiffany feel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the novel, how does the author use her main character Blandine’s dissociative experiences in order to consider the individual’s complex search for identity?

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think the protagonist legally changed her name to Blandine?

Essay Topic 3

Do a close reading of Joan’s character. How does her transformation throughout the novel speak to Gunty’s larger point of intersecting lives at The Rabbit Hutch?

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