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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. What does Stephanie tell Jeremy to do after Sarah Jane leaves the store?
(a) Stephanie asks Jeremy to keep a secret for her.
(b) Stephanie tells Jeremy to look at which video titles Sarah Jane took with her.
(c) Stephanie tells Jeremy to look at when Sarah Jane would be returning to the store.
(d) Stephanie asks Jeremy to call Sarah Jane about the video Stephanie returned.

2. What suggestion does Steve's counselor make to him?
(a) Steve forget about his wife's death and move forward.
(b) Steve draw paintings of his deceased wife.
(c) Steve keep a journal.
(d) Steve speak to Jeremy about his wife's death.

3. Who is the first customer to greet main character, Jeremy Heldt, at Video Hut Part One, Chapter 1?
(a) Stephanie Parsons.
(b) Bob Pietsch.
(c) Sarah Jane.
(d) Ezra.

4. What is one piece of information Sara Jane does not provide to Jeremy and Ezra after meeting Lisa Sample?
(a) Sarah Jane does not reveal the exact location of Lisa's farmhouse.
(b) Sarah Jane does not say that the name of the woman who answered was Lisa Sample.
(c) Sarah Jane does not disclose that Lisa Sample nearly tried to kill her.
(d) Sarah Jane does not profess that she shared a picture with Lisa.

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 determines that the setting is the same.
(c) Stephanie is certain the same woman is in both scenes.
(d) Stephanie cannot seem to figure out where the two scenes take place at.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many job interviews has Jeremy been on before applying for a job at Veatch Son offices?

2. At the start of the novel, why does Stephanie want Jeremy to talk to Sarah Jane, the owner of Video Hut?

3. What is the name of the counselor that Steve sees after his wife dies?

4. Who wants Sarah Jane to return to the videos, because it is time, in Part One, Chapter 10?

5. In Part One, Chapter 11, what is the name of the movie that Jeremy and Steve thinks portrays family farms in an inaccurate way?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is puzzling about the fact that Jeremy's co-worker, Ezra, works at Video Hut?

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

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

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. How does Stephanie come to the conclusion that both edited scenes in "Target" and "She's All That" are from the same place?

7. In Part One, Chapter 11, what is unusual and scary to Steve about the added scene in "Blue Chips?"

8. What metaphor does the narrator make about snakes in Part One, Chapter 10? How does this metaphor apply to greater themes in the novel?

9. 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?

10. What does Jeremy do after his father goes to sleep at the end of Part One, Chapter 4? Why does he do it?

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