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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 in the apartment was Zara when the bank robber arrived?
2. What did the bank robber sell to make money for food, but his mother drank the money he gave her?
3. How old is Estelle?
4. What does Anna-Lena tell Jack that she told Roger they should do rather than renovate and sell apartments?
5. Before Nadia went to the bridge to kill herself, where did she always feel like she was screaming until her heart burst?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happened when a teenage boy saw a man on a bridge ten years ago?
2. Why does Julia not want Ro to make friends during the hostage situation and apartment viewing?
3. What did Jack do when he was the first police officer into the apartment where the bank robber held people hostage?
4. What does Roger say about missing measurements, and how does he know there are missing measurements?
5. What happened after the hostages left the apartment?
6. What did Jim trip over in the apartment building that he thought was a bomb?
7. Who comes out of the bathroom in Chapter 36?
8. Why does the narrator say that the real estate agent was not doing a good job?
9. Why is the man in the rabbit head in the bathroom?
10. Why were the owners of the other apartment on the same floor as the apartment where the hostage drama was going on getting a divorce?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Roger and Anna-Lena have communication problems. How would you describe the relationship between Roger and Anna-Lena? How does communication cause problems in their marriage?
Essay Topic 2
What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?
Essay Topic 3
The bank robber’s husband has an affair. What does the narrator think happened to the bank robber’s marriage? Why does the narrator think complacency played a part in the failure of the marriage?
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