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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. Who does Tak tell Peter he is going to meet?

2. Who leaves the Billingsley home to find out what has happened in the woods?

3. Who can hear all of the telepathy going on in room?

4. What does Gary do when he realizes his wife is dead?

5. What does Peter notice is most strange about the vans and people in them?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Herb and Audrey not take Seth to the doctor for help?

2. What has the trash that was beside the path turned into?

3. What is it about one of Ralph Carver's action figures that bothers Johnny?

4. Why does Audrey say that Tak killed Herb?

5. What does Peter look like as he is described sitting in front of the television at the Wyler home?

6. What is significant about the year 1858?

7. What does Poplar Street look like as Audrey and Johnny walk across it on their way to the Wyler home?

8. What do Collie and Steve find in the greenbelt?

9. What has Tak come to do?

10. How did Tak encourage Jim to commit suicide?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain why the animals, plants and other things that the survivors come across look like replications of these things as a child might have created them.

Essay Topic 2

Trace the theme of love through the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Explore the significance of sex in the novel. Why is it mentioned when it was? What is it used for?

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