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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. Where do Joe and Beck consummate their relationship?

2. Dr. Nicky tells Joe that he has what in his house?

3. After his final session with Dr. Nicky, Joe admits that he is not what type of person?

4. Where does Joe follow Dr. Nicky and his wife?

5. After a long conversation with Joe, Beck tells Peach what about Joe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the Captain? Who does Joe initially fear he is? How does the learn the Captain's true identity?

2. What emergency causes Beck to rush to Peach's aid?

3. Who is really to blame for Peach's emergency? Why?

4. How does Joe end up alone in Dr. Nicky's office? What does Joe do while alone?

5. Following Joe's discovery in Peach's house, what does he begin to do every morning? Why?

6. Why does Dr. Nicky stop seeing Joe as a patient?

7. How does Dr. Nicky help Joe?

8. What do Beck and Peach learn while in Little Compton? What happens to Peach?

9. Who is Ethan? What plan do Joe and Beck devise for him?

10. How does Dr. Nicky suggest getting rid of the mouse? How does Joe understand this idea?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the author’s choice to tell this story by using a second-person point of view. How does viewing the second-person viewpoint affect the story? How would the book be different if the story was told through third-person narration?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the effects technology and social media have on Joe and Beck. What point do you think the author is trying to make regarding these innovations?

Essay Topic 3

Joe finds himself involved in several conflicts over the course of the novel. Choose one instance of internal conflict and one instance of external conflict, and explain how these conflicts have an impact on the story and the characters involved.

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