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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 does Mrs. Lundt do from another part of the house?

2. What does Mike Jr. do after a fight with his father?

3. When do Corrine and Michael first meet?

4. In the chapter titled "Reverse Prayer", what does Patrick say to Judd when he calls?

5. What do Marianne's parents give her on her sixteenth birthday that she now fears is broken?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lydia Bethune tell Corrine about Marianne and what bothers her the most about the revelation?

2. In the chapter, "Every Heartbeat," what is it that Judd suddenly realizes?

3. What role does Marianne's brother Patrick play the night of the Valentine's Dance that haunts him years after that night?

4. Why is Judd so insistent to find out what has happened to his sister that he put the family in such a turmoil?

5. What event occurs to Corrine in 1938 that she attributes to providence, and why does she say she is spared from death?

6. What questions are triggered about himself as Patrick thinks about the drawing, "The Huntsman?"

7. What kind of relationship does Michael Sr. have with his own father?

8. What is the family code discussed in the chapter by the same title, and in what way does Marianne break the code?

9. Outside in the building where her mother stores her antiques, Marianne searched for a picture. What is the name of the picture and why is it so important to her?

10. Judd happens upon his father talking to his older brothers about some kind of secret. What is the discussion about and what is the significance of the discussion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what way is Mike Jr.'s leaving different from the way Michael Sr. left his family when he was a teen? In what ways is it the same?

Essay Topic 2

What does Corrine learn about herself after Michael leaves? How does she handle life without him?

Essay Topic 3

Have the students consider Marianne's reaction to the gray animal hit by the car and why she reacted the way she did. It was more than her love for animals. There is a name for it, though the medical profession was just beginning to understand it at the time this story took place. Explain what happened.

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