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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. How does Johnny know the attack really happened?

2. What does Audrey think that Tak is trying to recreate on Poplar Street?

3. From where does Tak get his energy?

4. What does the group take from the greenbelt, back to the house with them?

5. To what year has Poplar Street been transformed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Seth play with his power wagons?

2. Why does Audrey think that Seth's family was killed?

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

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

5. What surprises Tak the most about the way things turn out?

6. As he dies, what does Collie tell Dave about the reason he was fired from the police department?

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

8. What does Seth do so that Tak is not able to re-enter him?

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

10. What is the significance of the mother and son ghosts seen in the folly at Mohonk Mountain?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Steve's role in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Do you think that Tak is gone at the conclusion of the novel? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

What sort of relationship do Audrey and Seth have?

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