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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. What time do Jeremy and Stephanie go out to Lisa's farmhouse in Part Three, Chapter 3?

2. How long has it been from the time Jeremy starts his new job in Part Three to when he visited Lisa's farmhouse shed?

3. What excuse does Irene give to Peter about the reason she is losing weight?

4. Why do the wives in Crescent trade Fridays off watching the children on Fridays?

5. Why does Sarah Jane immediately want to go to the scene of Ezra's car accident?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are some of the first signs that Irene is taking her new church very seriously, and that it may be beginning to take over her life?

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

4. 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.

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

6. How does Lisa initially respond to her mother's disappearance?

7. Using the quote, "...when she'd [Irene] gave no indication that anything unusual had happened or was about to happen or would continue happening without interruption in the days to follow" (127), what might the reader assume about Irene's disappearance?

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

9. 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?

10. 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?

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

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 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.

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