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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 Linda gain entrance into the courthouse in Coal Grove?

2. In Chapter 8, why is Jack worried about his aunt, Linda?

3. Who does Linda tell Jack are the most powerful among the weirs?

4. What does Hastings tell Jack to think of his opponents in the arena he has created?

5. Who is with Becka in the kitchen when Jack awakes in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. With whom does Jack get into a confrontation with during soccer tryouts? Why?

2. In Chapter 10, where does Jack learn his friends will be spending the summer? Where does Jack learn Ellen will be over the summer?

3. What surgery did Dr. Longbranch perform on Jackson Swift as an infant? For what reason?

4. How does Linda suggest Dr. Longbranch can keep Jack from developing his powers in order to allow him to live securely and in secret with his parents until he reaches maturity?

5. What reason does the leader of the Red Roses give for the murder of Lee's father?

6. Who confronts Jack after the championship game? What happens?

7. In Chapter 8, what does Hastings teach Jack about the Games? How does Jack feel about what he is learning?

8. In Chapter 5, why is Jack surprised by the identity of his new trainer?

9. In Chapter 8, what does Nick begin to teach Jack? What does Nick give to Jack?

10. What does Lee find when he returns home? What does Lee know about who is responsible for what he finds?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Jack's opponent in the Games? How does Jack feel when he learns about the identity of this opponent? What does this person tell Jack was her role in Trinity when Jack thought she was just another student at Trinity High School? Why does Jack go to see this opponent the night before the Games? How? Does this meeting serve to help or make matters worse for Jack? What does Jack say to this opponent that makes the reader fear Jack will lose the Games due to his own inability to kill his opponent?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Jack Swift? What was he born without that his aunt arranged for him to have inserted? What kind of stone did Linda think Dr. Longbranch had given Jack? What kind of stone did Dr. Longbranch really give to Jack? Why did Dr. Longbranch give Jack the wrong stone? What does Dr. Longbranch expect to happen when Jack grows up? What title does Dr. Longbranch have with the White Rose? Why does Linda believe this means Dr. Longbranch wants Jack for the White Rose? How does Linda convince Dr. Longbranch to allow Jack's parents to raise him? How does Dr. Longbranch suppress Jack's powers as he grows?

Essay Topic 3

What happens during the Games? Why does Jack use magic during the Games? Why is Hastings blamed for the first spell Jack uses? How do the judges come to realize that Jack is creating the spells? What do the judges do to prevent Jack from using any more spells? How does Ellen manage to get the better of Jack during the Games? What does Ellen do instead of killing Jack? Why does Ellen refuse to kill Jack? What do the judges say the consequences of Ellen and Jack's actions will be?

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