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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. Where does Lisa say that these other people from the videos went in Part Three, Chapter 2?
(a) "I don't really know" (148).
(b) "It's kind of strange" (148).
(c) "They're out there somewhere" (148).
(d) "People you once knew who've gone somewhere" (149).

2. Even though it was none of his business, what does Jeremy ask Sarah Jane after they leave the scene of the accident at the start of Part Three?
(a) Jeremy asks Sarah Jane why she is living at Lisa's farmhouse.
(b) Jeremy asks Sarah Jane why she had asked Ezra to come to Lisa's farmhouse.
(c) Jeremy asks Sarah Jane to explain why she is so persistent to go to the scene of the car accident.
(d) Jeremy asks Sarah Jane what is going on at Lisa's farmhouse.

3. How long has it been from the time Jeremy starts his new job in Part Three to when he visited Lisa's farmhouse shed?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 16 months.
(c) 5 months.
(d) 2 years.

4. Where does Irene first meet Peter Sample?
(a) Irene and Peter meet at church.
(b) Irene and Peter meet on the A train they both took to work.
(c) Irene and Peter meet Henry's Drive-In.
(d) Irene and Peter meet as children, when they were neighbors.

5. What does Jeremy ask Sarah Jane for when he arrives at Lisa's farmhouse?
(a) A glass of water.
(b) A new shirt.
(c) For a phone to call the police.
(d) Something to eat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it unusual that Irene left Peter a Christmas Card on the table?

2. What hopeful, but unlikely, situation does the narrator portray in regards to Irene and Lisa at the start of Part Three?

3. When Peter inquires about Irene attending a new church, what does Irene tell him?

4. What does Irene oddly start saving in a bucket in the kitchen?

5. What did Lisa do for the other people who stayed at the farmhouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Peter Sample's life described at the start of Part Two, Chapter 1? Do not use the exact information provided, but make inferences that can be drawn. Write in your own words.

2. In Part Three, Chapter 1, what are the two versions of where Irene may be according to the narrator? How do the different stories leave out any definite information?

3. Upon Irene's first visit to Michael Christopher's church, what is his interpretation and the importance of the Bible verse from Luke?

4. How and why does Sarah Jane justify not providing Jeremy access to the phone at the farmhouse after Ezra's accident?

5. Why does Jeremy relate a weekend in Vegas to what happens to him at Lisa house in Part Three, Chapter 4?

6. The story shifts to the future as Jeremy works his new job and demolishes a shed. It ends by saying, "The shock of the impact, the satisfying crunch of boards cracking under hard steel, the muffled sounds of everything inside being quickly crumpled into unrecognizable pulp" (160). What does Jeremy's illustration say about his past experience in Lisa's shed? In what ways does the account provide further insight into Jeremy's development as a character?

7. How does Lisa explain her reasoning to Sarah Jane for taking the videos and adding the scenes into the movies?

8. Why are Jeremy and Stephanie surprised to meet Lisa on her porch when they travel there in the middle of the night?

9. How does Jeremy's lack of knowledge about Stephanie's apartment help him discover something critical about himself?

10. In what ways is Irene's new married life in Crescent different from when she lived in Tama? How does the move emotionally affect her?

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