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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 was Tamara Quinn's greatest secret that she kept from her family?
2. How many children did Gahalowood have?
3. Who wrote the anonymous threatening letters to Harry in the summer of 1975 after Nola's disappearance?
4. Who burned the love note Harry wrote to Nola that Tamara Quinn had stolen and put in her safe?
5. Why did the person writing the threatening letters to Harry stop writing them?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Harry react when Marcus told him about finding the painting of Nola in Elijah Stern's house?
2. Why was the handwriting analysis of the writing on The Origin of Evil transcript that was buried with Nola so important and whose handwriting was it?
3. Why did Nola agree to pose nude for Luther?
4. Why did Jenny file a complaint against Luther in 1975?
5. Why did Harry tell Marcus they could no longer be friends after he got out of jail and his house burned down?
6. What did Nola tell Harry her mother did to her to punish her?
7. Why did Gahalowood invite Marcus to dinner at his house?
8. Why did Luther Caleb's father get so upset when he learned that the name of the girl who had disappeared was Nola Kellergan?
9. When David Kellergan discovered Nola was missing, how did he handle her disappearance?
10. Why did Tamara Quinn tell her therapist that she is so mean to her daughter Jenny?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does Harry title the manuscript The Origin of Evil, even though it is ostensibly a love story?
Essay Topic 2
Does Dicker make a convincing case through his description of Harry Quebert and Nola Kellergan's affair that true love is possible between two people of dramatically different ages?
Essay Topic 3
Harry gives Marcus advice about women, and he also gives a somewhat controversial, provocative speech about a real-life sex scandal on Marcus's college campus. What is your assessment of Harry's general attitudes toward women? Cite specific examples from the text in your answer.
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