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

3. How does Jeremy summarize his impression of family gatherings in Part One, Chapter 2?

4. What is the first place that Bob Veatch shows Jeremy after the interview?

5. When did Jeremy start his job at Video Hut?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

9. At the start of the novel, what is Jeremy's reaction when Stephanie Parson's returns a video?

10. How does Sarah Jane respond to the videos after she views them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part Three, Chapter 4 is set in the future and casts Jeremy as a worker who is rebuilding a shed. His co-worker is surprised that Jeremy knows so much about old sheds and how they are made. Jeremy's memories of being at Lisa Sample’s years before overtake him, and new discoveries are presented through this experience. What does Jeremy explain about his experience at Lisa's house? How do his understandings and revealings relate to Jeremy's growth and change of character from past to present?

Essay Topic 2

Jeremy and Stephanie meet at a restaurant to share their findings about Lisa Sample's farmhouse and how she might be involved in the editing of the videos. Jeremy and Stephanie do not agree on what they should do next as far as figuring out exactly what is happening. What are the differences of opinion between the two? What discoveries can you make about Lisa Sample's involvement in the video editing and why she may be editing the videos?

Essay Topic 3

At the end of Part One, Chapter 9, Jeremy's father, Steve, asks Jeremy if it is okay that Steve is dating again. Jeremy responds that it is fine, because Linda, his mother, would want Steve to be happy. Then, Jeremy wrestles with his own relationship with his father and what Jeremy can do to make his father comfortable. How does Jeremy feel about living with his father? How do Jeremy's musings about this relationship reflect a greater theme in the novel that reflects the hesitant and uncertain nature of events and characters' decisions?

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