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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. Hazel had a stuffed bird on her mantel in her room. What type of bird was it?

2. What was Hazel's initial sense of what Ethereum smelled like?

3. Where does Bernard live?

4. Where is Hazel's father?

5. What was the name of Hazel's bully in anatomy class?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 4, Why did Jack meet Jeanette outside of Lord Almont's House?

2. What “performance” did Hazel want to see? How did she end up getting in?

3. In Chapter 1, What did Hazel find on her walk and what did she do with it?

4. In Chapter 14, what did Bernard offer Hazel as an activity when he came to visit her? What was Hazel's response?

5. Why was Hazel unafraid of Roman fever?

6. What was the lesson that Hazel thought the play was trying to preach?

7. What were the circumstances regarding Hazel's dismissal from anatomy classes?

8. In Chapter 9, What was Jack's memory of how he learned about resurrection men?

9. When was the first time readers see Hazel healing someone? What did she do?

10. In Chapter 8, Where did Hazel go with her mother? What did they do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dr. Beecham and Hazel were similar in many ways. There were both resourceful, ambitious, highly intelligent, and impacted personally by death. Beecham became obsessed with his personal immortality and became insensitive to the death of others. How was Hazel different from Beecham in this respect? Why do you think she refused immortality for herself?

Essay Topic 2

Was there anything about the book that did not make sense to you or that you wished the author would have explained more fully? Did that affect your judgment of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about what you liked about the book. What were some story elements that you particularly enjoyed? Who was your favorite character and why? What did you think of the author's writing style?

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