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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. In what condition does Skip arrive for work?

2. How does Skip surprise Sonya?

3. What does the figure in the cave chant?

4. Who is Thurber?

5. What is the life force called?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dr. Blakewood want Nora to do when she tells him about her father's letter?

2. What about Sloane's arrival bothers Nora?

3. Why does Nora ask that the expedition be kept a secret?

4. Why does Nora have a hard time with the one condition that Dr. Goddard imposes?

5. Who does Nora meet in Chapter 12?

6. How does John tell them that a person becomes a witch?

7. Skip went back to the farmhouse and picked up Teddy Bear after Teresa's death. Why did he do this, and what happened afterwards?

8. Who is still missing from the group when Nora arrives at the meeting place?

9. How does Skip suggest Nora find the road their father claims in his letter to have followed?

10. What distracts Goddard during his meeting with Nora?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In several instances, there are deaths that can be attributed to wolfskin runners or skinwalkers. They are referred to as witches by the natives, and feared by all. What other names are they given and why?

Part one: Name the different places and occasions where the skinwalkers have asserted themselves. What behaviors can be attributed to their specific brand of witchcraft? What displays were created by them?

Part two: What are the prerequisites to becoming a skinwalker? What rituals are necessary, and what items are collected for future use by the skinwalkers?

Part three: What is the purpose or objectives of the skinwalkers? What are they trying to accomplish?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the story, there are examples of forces of good and evil. What are they? Categorize first the good and then the evil, by name and by deed or many deeds. How do they balance out? How does that compare with real life and the forces of good and evil? (Use your own life as a gauge.)

Essay Topic 3

Overall, this book could be said to contain several morals. What are they? What specific lessons are learned? Obstacles overcome? Closures attained? What would you say is the overall message of this novel? Why?

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