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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 Ned feel after visiting Jenny in the nursing home?

2. After finding someone at his kitchen table, where does Ned go with Jenny?

3. During Father Michaels' troubled Mass, what does he eventually do?

4. When Sam kidnapped Ned, what did they do together?

5. How does Drew react when Sam parks in front of the garage at the Littler's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sam infuriate Jenny?

2. Why did Sam kidnap Ned?

3. Why would Sam leave Ned in the basement?

4. What internal conflict begins with Ned concerning his father?

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

6. What sort of relationship does Ned have with Father Michaels?

7. At the beginning of his stay with Sam, why is Ned uncomfortable?

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

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

10. Why does Drew begin the organization, "Money People"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate Ned's relationship with his boyhood friends. How did these friendships shape him?

Essay Topic 2

What do Sam's different living arrangements show about his characterization?

Essay Topic 3

What role does death play in "The Risk Pool"?

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