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

2. What does Mr. Hastings tell Jack is the first step to controlling his powers?

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

4. What is the occupation of Lee's father?

5. What reason does Mr. Hastings give Jack for coming to Ohio from New York?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In Chapter 2, what object does Jack receive from Mercedes? How does Linda encourage him to wear it?

5. 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?

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

7. In Chapter 6, what immediate impact does Jack feel from his new medication?

8. Who is listed as the person who found Susannah's body after her death? What is the significance of this?

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

10. In Chapter 7, what is the first thing Hastings wants Jack to learn to do with his powers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How old is Jack Swift when the novel begins? Why does Jack forget to take his medication? What does Jack think the medication is for? What happens when Jack tries out for soccer after forgetting his medication? What does Jack attribute this change to? Why is Becka upset with Jack when he returns home after soccer tryouts? What does Becka make Jack take almost immediately after he walks in the door? What does Becka think Jack is taking his medication for? Who plans to come visit Jack, as the reader learns in Chapter 1? What does Jack think of this surprise visit?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following relationships in detail:

1) Hastings and Becka

2) Linda and Becka

3) Longbranch and Jack

4) Jack and Hastings.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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