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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. Which character bullies Jake by saying that Jake had taken Neil Spencer's classroom chair?
2. Mrs. Spencer tells Amanda in Chapter 6 that Neil had reported what type of creature outside his window before he went missing?
3. What color jogging pants had Tony Smith been wearing when he disappeared?
4. Which other name is mentioned within the prologue, in addition to the person to whom it is addressed?
5. In Chapter 11, Tom has a nightmare about his father throwing what object at Tom's mother's face?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Jake's response to the concern Tom voices in Chapter 9 about Jake's drawing?
2. In what way does the final line of Chapter 1 refer back to the novel's title and why?
3. Why do the other officers involved in the search for Neil in Chapter 2 consider Pete's presence odd?
4. What event occurs at the end of Part Two that causes Tom to call the police?
5. Provide evidence for the conclusion that Pete is a determined man.
6. Describe the man who rings Tom's doorbell at the end of Chapter 13 and meets him at the start of Chapter 14.
7. When the girl in the checked white-and-blue dress repeats the whole rhyme to Jake in Chapter 17, what acts does it warn against taking?
8. What does Jake do when Tom asks if he wants to say goodbye at the end of Chapter 4?
9. What piece of information does Mrs. Spencer remember and tell Amanda that causes Amanda to race to meet with Colin, her superior?
10. With what sentiment does the writer of the prologue end his address to his son Jake?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss North’s use of the motif of sound within the novel The Whisper Man.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the instances of irony within the narrative of The Whisper Man and analyze North’s purpose for including each instance you discuss.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss North's choice to tell the story of The Whisper Man using the first person point-of-view for Tom and a third person limited omniscient narrator for other narrators, such as the child-murderer, Amanda, Jake, and even Pete. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what are North’s intended effects on the reader?
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