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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 Tiffany want after her relationship with James ends?

2. The day before Blandine exits her body, who is she irritated with?

3. Who lives in the apartment C8?

4. Why does Joan's boss scold her?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Tiffany hear James play?

3. How do Tiffany and James know each other?

4. What is Blandine obsessed in?

5. What does the name Blandine stand for to Tiffany?

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

7. What are the names of the elderly couple in C6?

8. How does James make Tiffany feel?

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

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

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

How are dead animals a prominent motif in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

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

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