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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 event occurs that prevents the girl in the checked blue-and-white dress from clarifying the meaning of the rhyme she told to Jake?
2. Whose perspective of events is portrayed within Chapter 16?
3. It is revealed in Chapter 5 that Tom refuses to take what action in front of his son Jake?
4. What kind of smile does Jake draw onto the girl in the blue-and-white dress in his drawing featured in Chapter 8?
5. What is the name of the previous owner of the house in Featherbank where Jake and Tom move?
Short Essay Questions
1. What development causes Pete to tell Amanda that there is likely a break in the Neil Spencer case coming up?
2. In what way does the final line of Chapter 1 refer back to the novel's title and why?
3. The reader learns in Chapter 19 the reason behind Pete's divorce from his wife Sally. What was the reason?
4. Describe the man who rings Tom's doorbell at the end of Chapter 13 and meets him at the start of Chapter 14.
5. Why do the other officers involved in the search for Neil in Chapter 2 consider Pete's presence odd?
6. What new details about the Tony Smith case does the reader learn in Chapter 7?
7. How did Jake learn about the death of his mother, Rebecca?
8. From whose perspective is the beginning of Chapter 1 narrated and what is the setting?
9. At what point in the investigation of Neil Spencer's disappearance does Pete get officially involved?
10. What symbolism does Tom see within the name Featherbank?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sensory details are used frequently by North in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of The Whisper Man. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve North’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.
Essay Topic 2
What is the function of Norman Collins's character within the novel? Discuss the characterization methods used by North in depicting Collins and include in your discussion the reasons that North portrays him in these particular ways.
Essay Topic 3
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within North’s novel The Whisper Man. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
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