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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. Why does Stephanie visit Video Hut a second time?

2. What does Jeremy do after Sarah Jane stops showing up to work?

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

4. As stated in Part One, Chapter 12, what part/room at Lisa's house does Sarah Jane decide to reside in?

5. What note does Sarah Jane make about the "She's All That" video?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is an alternate version to how Jeremy's life unfolds if he does not pursue investigating the added scenes to the videos?

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

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

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. How does Steve's date go with Shauna Kinzer? How does Jeremy feel about this new relationship?

6. 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?

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

8. How does Jeremy feel about holiday conversations as described in Part One, Chapter 2?

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. 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

Pages 148-149 eventually explain why Lisa Sample is editing videos and saving old ones. Sarah Jane asks Lisa why she feels the need to do these things. How does Lisa account for this bizarre hobby? What themes can you draw from this conversation? Provide quotes and examination to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

The narrative ends with Emily Pratt developing some of her photographs from Iowa in the cellar darkroom. She muses, "Still, when she [Emily] considered her best shot from that morning...she wondered what she'd already missed, what had gone missing from Iowa before she ever got there. There is no way knowing" (214). Emily's character does not know the story of Lisa Sample, but yet her words connect to the development and interactions of all characters in a previous time. Once again, the themes of loss, loss of memory, loss of knowledge, or loss of understanding are related from a character who has not been a part of the plot. How does this quote relate to the emotions and actions of other characters? Choose two to three characters to examine through the lens of this quote.

Essay Topic 3

Part Four, Chapters 1-3 catapults the narrative forward to the lives of the Pratts, as they move into Lisa Sample's old farmhouse. The two children, James and Abby, find a vehicle containing Lisa's old videos. They fight over the content, titles, and reasons for the making of the videos. How do James' and Abby's opinions differ? What new discoveries can be made about the videos' content, titles, and possible reasons for why the videos were made using past information?

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