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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. Of what is Tak comprised?

2. How does Johnny know it was Seth who ordered his own death?

3. What is one of the things that clues Audrey in that Seth is not himself?

4. Who joins the regulators at the end of the scene?

5. Who taps the doctor on the shoulder?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Johnny realize that Seth has some connection to what is going on with the people of Poplar Street?

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

3. What has Tak come to do?

4. What is strange about the animals that appear in Chapter 8?

5. Why does Audrey say that Tak killed Herb?

6. What do Audrey and Johnny have to do to stop the horror on Poplar Street?

7. How did Tak encourage Jim to commit suicide?

8. What is strange about the way that the animals die?

9. Describe Audrey's phone call in Chapter 9.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Johnny's role in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Audrey's safe space. What purpose does it serve? Who created it?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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