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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 is the name of the shop Mei takes Wallace to?

2. How does Wallace die?

3. What does Wallace ask Hugo that Hugo will not answer in Chapter 8?

4. What is Wallace's first memory of death?

5. Who is the ferryman?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Wallace realize people really think of him at his own funeral?

2. Who intrigues Wallace at his own funeral, and why?

3. Who is Nelson and why does he stay at the tea shop?

4. Why does Mei come to Wallace's funeral?

5. Why is Mei delayed in bringing Wallace back to Charon's Crossing?

6. What connects Wallace and Hugo?

7. How do Wallace and Hugo mimic touching in Chapter 9?

8. In Chapter 7, what does Hugo show Wallace to try to calm him down?

9. What does Wallace think of the tea shop, Charon's Crossing, when he first sees it?

10. What does Wallace think of the tea Hugo makes for him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When and how does Hugo begin to doubt - and then lose some faith in - the manager? How does Klune describe this shift? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How does Klune treat the subjects of both suicide and murder? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Klune sets the scene of Wallace's discomfort and humiliation at his own funeral, and how does this episode set the reader's expectation for what is to come next? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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