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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 stone should Dr. Longbranch have inserted in Jack during the surgery?

2. In Chapter 6, Nick tells Jack that ___________created his Weirbook.

3. In Chapter 10, what does Jack say he would like to be when he grows up?

4. One whole room of Nick's apartment is dedicated to _____________.

5. Who comes to Jack's house to walk to school with him in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 3, whose grave is Linda attempting to find? How old was this person when she died?

2. What voices does Jack hear at Susannah's grave? What do they say? Why does he hear them?

3. What do Jack, Will, and Fitch find at Susannah's grave? Who tries to take it from Jack?

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

5. What does Jack tell Nick about missing his medication? What does Nick say about Jack's reaction?

6. What happens the first time Hastings sends Jack an opponent in his special arena?

7. In Chapter 9, how does Hastings create an arena for Jack to fight in? What is special about this arena?

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

9. In Chapter 3, Jack is attacked by a man with a saber, but does not suffer any injury. How is this possible?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following objects in an essay, discussing the importance of the object and its magical properties:

1) Shadowslayer

2) Baldric

3) Magic Mirror

4) Mercedes' vest.

Essay Topic 2

Who is Lee? What does his father do for a living? What does Lee come home to find? Who is Carrie? Why does Lee believe the Roses did not hurt Carrie? Why does Carrie say it would be better if she left? Who does Carrie say the Roses are looking for? What is Lee? Why does this make him safer than Carrie? What has happened to Lee and Carrie's mother? What does Carrie instruct Lee to do for their mother? Who is waiting for Lee when he begins to leave Carrie's hiding place? Why does the leader say they killed Lee's father? What is the name of the warrior who hurts Lee? What does Lee swear to be rather than the bear he had been to that point? Who does the reader later learn Lee to be in the plot of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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