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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 does Hope worry about?

2. Why is Tiffany enraged in “Variables”?

3. What is Joan sensitive about?

4. Who develops an attraction to James?

5. What is Blandine worried about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is in the bag that Blandine leaves the house with?

2. Why does Joan's boss scold her?

3. What does Tiffany hear James play?

4. In the days following “the Night,” what does James stop doing?

5. In “Hear Me Out,” when did Todd’s and Malik’s animal sacrificing start?

6. In “Chemical Hazard,” what is Moses’s favorite pastime?

7. What does Blandine talk to Joan about in “Afterlife”?

8. In Part II, “Afterlife,” two days before Blandine exits her body, where does she go?

9. What is Joan Kowalski screening on the website?

10. In “My First Was a Fish," what did the fish’s death convince Jack of?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Blandine want to exit her body? How does it feel when she accomplishes this exit?

Essay Topic 2

Because characters like Blandine, Jack, Todd, and Malik have grown up in the Vacca Vale foster care system, how does this affect their lives?

Essay Topic 3

How are dead animals a prominent motif in the novel?

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