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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 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.

2. Who does Steve claim to see in a clip from the movie that he watches with Jeremy and Shauna after dinner?
(a) Steve tells his girlfriend that he sees a woman running down a road, and that they should not tell Sarah Jane, because it will upset her.
(b) Steve claims that he sees his wife, Linda.
(c) Steve claims that there is a brief shot of a man with blood running down his nose.
(d) Steve tells Jeremy and his girlfriend that he sees a woman tied to a chair.

3. What do Jeremy and his father call beer?
(a) Beers.
(b) Budweisers.
(c) Bruskies.
(d) Beasts.

4. When did Jeremy start his job at Video Hut?
(a) Two week earlier.
(b) His junior year of high school.
(c) Six months earlier.
(d) Two year earlier.

5. In Part One, Chapter 8, where does Lisa Sample say she spent a short while before moving to Collins?
(a) Madison, Wisconsin.
(b) Las Vegas, Nevada.
(c) Ames, Iowa.
(d) Nevada, Iowa.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Jeremy receives a job offer from Bob Veatch, what does he tell his father he has to do first?

2. What is different about Jeremy's copy of the video,"Targets" in Part One?

3. What does Jeremy confess to Sarah Jane about watching the video, "She's All That"?

4. What does Jeremy mean when he says he and his father eat at the dinner table, "like a family" (13)?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In Part One, Chapter 7, the narrator provides reasons for why a person would live in a farmhouse. How does this description of setting connect to a greater theme?

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

6. Why does Jeremy think that his father, Steve, is truly fixing the gutter during the day when Jeremy returns home from work?

7. In Steve's final paragraph in his journal, how is it both tender and full of fear?

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

9. How do you know that Jeremy is curious about Sarah Jane and the videos? What conversation does he have with Stephanie to prove this?

10. How does the suggestion that Steve keep a journal from his therapist, Ken Wahl, help Steve overcome some of his grief from losing his wife?

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