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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 “Chemical Hazard,” who flies to Indiana for revenge?

2. In “A Threat to Us All,” what does the Vacca Vale Gazette report?

3. How old is Blandine?

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

5. The Vacca Vale Country Club is hosting what event?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Blandine get these emails?

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

3. What scares Hope about her baby?

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

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

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

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

8. What is Blandine obsessed in?

9. Why is Tiffany enraged in “Variables”?

10. What does Blandine wish she could do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

How does the author use her narrative form, structure, and setting in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

How is the character James an escape for Blandine?

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