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

2. What is Jeremy's father, Steve Heldt, doing when Jeremy returns home in Part One, Chapter 1?

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

4. Why does Ezra say Sarah Jane will not be coming to work in Part One, Chapter 7?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Jeremy act casually about Steve having a new girlfriend?

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

4. Why does Sarah Jane go to the farmhouse in Collins after viewing the videos? How does Sarah Jane know how to locate the farmhouse?

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

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

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

8. At the end of Part One, Chapter 2, Jeremy describes the tone of winter. What specifically does he say about it? How is his description metaphorical?

9. What are some reasons for why it is mysterious that Sarah Jane moves into Lisa's farmhouse?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Summarize Jeremy's life in Part One, Chapters 1-2. Examine his daily activities are and how he feels about his life's trajectory. Why does the author choose to start the novel off by focusing the humdrum nature of Jeremy's existence? How does this opening to the novel contrast to the way Jeremy's actually unfolds? How does his life show progress or change and what still remains the same for Jeremy?

Essay Topic 2

Pages 100-101 document a religious tract given to Irene while outside the Old Market. The message relates directly to Irene's situation, as well as how her life possibly evolves in the future. What associations can be made from the tract and Irene's own life? How does the tract signify what is to come later in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Pages 121-122 describe a situation Irene Sample shares with her husband, Peter. She has left a bible study for asking controversial questions, but the author decides not to clarify what she has been asked by the congregation. What do you think caused Irene to leave the bible study? Knowing how the novel evolves after this incident, what topic do you think Irene disagreed with and why?

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