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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 Fred read had been found on John Wesley Irkenham's dismembered body?

2. What does Wendell envision his coverage of the Fisherman murders doing?

3. What does Jack say when Estelle Packard asks him if he is her father?

4. What does Wendell ask Doodles and the two men with her in the end of Chapter eleven?

5. Whose hand writing does Jack find on the note pad in Chapter nine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Henry and Jack discuss in chapter eight when Jack is telling Henry of going to the police station to talk to Fred and the three boys that had been with Tyler?

2. Explain what is known about Henry Leyden that is shown in chapter three.

3. Explain what happened after Charles Burnside first arrived at the hospital as the story is recalled in Chapter two?

4. Explain the importance of the letters that Dale is looking at in Chapter three.

5. Describe the conversation that Rebecca, Peter Wexler, and Henry have in chapter seven when Peter says that there was another little boy taken from outside of Maxton's.

6. What happens outside of Ed's Eats and Dawgs when Henry realizes that someone is taking his picture?

7. What does Wendell tell Jack after Beezer has ruined the film in his camera?

8. What does Judy tell Jack about Faraway in Chapter fourteen?

9. In Chapter fourteen, what does Fred tell Jack he should know about Judy before they go to see her at the institution?

10. Describe what happens in Chapter eight when Jack interviews the three boys that Tyler had last been seen with before he was taken from outside Maxton's.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Do you think that Dale truly gives up his position as police chief? Explain.

2) What do you think is the difference between a police man and a coppice man?

3) How would you have described Speedy's involvement in the story? Do you think he is a coppice man like Jack? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

1) Compare Dale and Beezer. In what ways are these two characters the same? In what ways do they differ?

2) Do you feel that Dale and Beezer will continue to help each other now that Jack is gone? Why or why not?

3) Which of these characters do you feel is stronger or the better leader?

Essay Topic 3

1) What was Tansy Freneau's role in the story?

2) Why is Tansy not visited again after the destruction of Black House?

3) Do you feel that there is any chance that Tansy was restored to her original state of mind? Why or why not?

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