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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 Mr. Roberts do for a living?

2. Where is the dead wolf kept?

3. How does Peter feel around John Owen?

4. What is inside the chicken that Jen cooks alone?

5. What happens when Peter drops the key in the grave?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Peter think about Bedd Taliesin?

2. What is most alarming about the wolf that is killed during the hunt?

3. Why does Dr. Rhys say people like to understand things?

4. Whom does Peter take with him to return the key, and why?

5. What begins to strain the relationship between Jen and Becky?

6. What does Jen do when she learns that Dr. Rhys cannot do for her what she had hoped?

7. What does Jen beg Dr. Rhys to do?

8. How does Peter feel when he sees no water in the moat?

9. What does Peter see as a similarity between him and Dr. Owen?

10. Why is David so shocked to hear about the wolf spotted in the area?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 2

Personal identity was one of the main themes in this book. Where did this theme appear, and how did its inclusion in the novel shape the course of the plot?

Essay Topic 3

What role does symbolism play in the story? Where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

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