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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. What animal does Sonja describe hearing when she arrives at Vin's house with him in Chapter 7?

2. What great creature was said to be killing people by the river in "Story of the Boy with Prophetic Visions" (41)?

3. How long does Sonja wait after Vin's message to call him back in the beginning of Chapter 7?

4. What gifts did Tsala bring to Clara when he met her?

5. What did a corn stalk transform into in the boy's dream in "Story of the Boy with Prophetic Visions" (41)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jackson tell Edgar to introduce himself as Jim in the Darkening Land?

2. What visions did the boy have in "Story of the Boy with Prophetic Visions"?

3. How does the Laoka trick the young man in "The Story of Laoka" in Chapter 8?

4. Who is Rae and what is her role in the novel?

5. What do birds symbolize in the novel?

6. When was Tsala killed? Why was he killed?

7. What kind of stories does Maria read to the children at the shelter? How do they respond to her stories?

8. How did Ray-Ray die? When did this happen?

9. What is Wyatt like when he first arrives at the home of Maria and Ernest?

10. What does Tsala describe himself as in the narration in Chapter 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss the plot structure and timelines in The Removed. How many different storylines are there in this narrative? How are these storylines interconnected? What character or characters stand outside of the main timeline? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss the character of Sonja in The Removed. How old is Sonja? Where does she live? What appear to be Sonja's primary objectives in the story? Does she achieve those objectives? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the character of Tsala in The Removed. In what time and place is Tsala as he narrates? What happened to Tsala in the past? What are his circumstances now? How does Tsala interact with characters in the main timeline, and what does this mean?

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