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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Jeremy's father, Steve, have dinner with at Spaghetti Works in Des Moines?
(a) Shauna Wright.
(b) Sarah Jane.
(c) Shauna Kinzer.
(d) Bob Veatch.

2. What is Sarah Jane's first conclusion after watching one of the video's unusual scenes in Part One, Chapter 5?
(a) Sarah Jane wants to possibly call the police.
(b) Sarah Jane wants to put the video back on the shelf.
(c) Sarah Jane says that the video has to be thrown away and never spoken about.
(d) Sarah Jane asks Jeremy to burn all of the videos with weird scenes.

3. According to the end of Part One, Chapter 9, how does Jeremy feel about his relationship with his father in the absence of his mother?
(a) Jeremy feels that his father tries to replace his mother with other women, and it is insulting.
(b) Jeremy cannot understand why his father insists on pretending that his mother's death is not that big of a deal.
(c) Jeremy feels that they have created a comfortable space, where he does not have to think much.
(d) Jeremy believes that he should be able to leave his father and experience a life somewhere far away.

4. What does Jeremy mean when he says he and his father eat at the dinner table, "like a family" (13)?
(a) Jeremy expresses this sentiment, because he feels left out of his family.
(b) Jeremy means that his father and mother make him eat dinner together.
(c) Jeremy wants the reader to know that his father is abusive, but pretends they are a family.
(d) Jeremy means that they are an incomplete family without his mother, but his father still tries.

5. What revelation does Stephanie make about the scenes from the two videos?
(a) Stephanie makes Jeremy watch the videos again to look for how the camera angles are the same.
(b) Stephanie cannot seem to figure out where the two scenes take place at.
(c) Stephanie is certain the same woman is in both scenes.
(d) Stephanie determines that the setting is the same.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sport did Steve's girlfriend Shauna play in college?

2. When does Jeremy's mother, Linda, die according to Steve in Part One, Chapter 9?

3. Where did Steve meet Jeremy's mother, Linda?

4. When Jeremy opens Video Hut, what does he have to do first?

5. What does Jeremy state that he wants Steve's girlfriend to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part One, Chapter 3, why does Jeremy decide to watch the malfunctioning videos, even though he usually throws them away?

2. How does Lisa Sample answer Sarah Jane's questions about the farmhouse and the woman in the snapshot? What does Sarah Jane think after she leaves the farmhouse?

3. What are Jeremy's excuses for not contacting the police after admitting the videos have similarities and are violent?

4. When Sarah Jane drives to Video Hut from Collins, why does she want to arrive first?

5. In Part One, Chapter 6, what version of events does the narrator say happened, even though the novel says that Sarah Jane tells Jeremy a different story?

6. What is the overall theme of the Quote that precedes the novel?

7. How is the first added scene of the movie "Targets" described? Why is it odd?

8. Why does Sarah Jane lie to Jeremy about her trip to Collins?

9. How does Sarah Jane respond to the videos after she views them?

10. Why is Jeremy hesitant to take the new job at Bob Veatch's company?

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