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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 goes with Amanda when she conducts a search of Francis Carter's last known address?

2. How does Tom feel when he finds out in Chapter 41 that someone he knows is a reporter?

3. Pete tells Amanda in Chapter 25 that which character had been brought in for questioning 10 years before due to his odd behavior?

4. What word does the kidnapper whisper as he ascends the stairs toward Jake's room in Chapter 51?

5. Who comes to Tom's door in Chapter 43 in an attempt to apologize?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sight feels "invasive and wrong" (178) to Tom when he sees the police searching the house on Garholt Street?

2. Whose perspective does the narrator present in Chapter 37 and what is the intended effect of the choice?

3. What is the one useful piece of information Tom gleans from Mrs. Shearing when he visits her in Chapter 26?

4. What was Frank Carter's murder signature and what hypothesis does Pete create about it in Chapter 49?

5. What type of scene do Karen and Tom find back at Tom's house at the end of Chapter 52?

6. Who was Dominic Barnett, according to Pete's accounts?

7. In what way does North portray Pete as both a skeptic and a dreamer?

8. To whom does Tom tell his whole sordid Featherbank story in Chapter 36 and why?

9. What evidence does Amanda find when she searches Francis Carter's former home in Chapter 48?

10. On what basis is Norman arrested in Chapter 33 and how does Amanda feel about the event?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Trace the characterization arc of Pete’s character throughout the novel The Whisper Man. Discuss whether Pete is a round or flat character and whether Pete is a static or dynamic character.

Essay Topic 2

Choose an object from The Whisper Man, such as the devil mask, the taped-up cardboard box, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within the text.

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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