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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 Peter plan to start his descriptions of what has happened to him that day?

2. What happens that surprises the group in the Carver home?

3. What animal does Peter hear as he starts toward the greenbelt?

4. What does Jim do after he kills Collie?

5. What is the thundercloud that Cynthia sees in the shaped like?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Cammie tell her boys before they leave?

4. What has Tak come to do?

5. How did Tak encourage Jim to commit suicide?

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

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

8. How does the group of survivors in the Carver house plan to go for help?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one character and explore their role in the novel. Describe their personality. How did they influence the situation in which they found themselves? Did they live or die?

Essay Topic 2

What is the role of the MotoKops in the novel. Are they good or evil?

Essay Topic 3

Which characters were killed in "The Regulators" and which ones were not? Do you believe the characters who were killed were targeted, or were the killings random? Why or why not?

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