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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. When do Jenny and Sam separate?

2. What lie does Ned tell his peers at school concerning his father?

3. When Sam kidnapped Ned, how long did Ned stay with Sam?

4. How does the town react to Sam and Jenny's confrontation concerning the kidnapping?

5. When Sam kidnapped Ned, what did Ned think they would do together?

Short Essay Questions

1. What bothers Ned about Jack Ward?

2. What kind of gesture is Sam making by leaving Ned a bag of clothes?

3. Why does Ned think that Jenny is dead?

4. Why does Jack Ward claim that he now has so much money that he does not know how to spend it?

5. How does Ned react to church?

6. How does Ned react when Sam enters his life at age six?

7. How is attending church like drinking for Jenny?

8. Why is Claude Schwartz, Jr. friends with Ned?

9. What happens with Father Michaels and Jenny?

10. Why does Ned begin to live a double life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the book cyclical?

Essay Topic 2

What does Ned learn from his experience at the Mohawk Grill?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Leigh and Ned's feelings toward marriage.

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