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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. Why does Mrs. Creed become angry?

2. Who calls Torey while he is in the basement?

3. What may demonstrate a change taking place inside Torey?

4. What rumor is circulating around school?

5. Who comes into the cafeteria in the middle of lunch?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who calls Torey from school and what do they talk about?

2. What does Mrs. Creed say to Torey and Ali's statements?

3. What does Mrs. Adams tell Torey about his vision at the rocks?

4. What does Mrs. Adams say about Bo and why? What does Ali tell her about her fears?

5. What upsets Mr. Adams about Torey and what does he tell Torey as he takes him home from school?

6. Where is Torey after he is rescued from the burial grounds and what is he refusing to do? How are the doctors responding to his refusal?

7. What does Ali tell Torey about more of Chris's diary she had read?

8. What happens when Torey and Ali get on the school bus the morning after being at the police station?

9. What do Ali and Torey discover about Chris and another town?

10. What do Torey, Ali and Bo decide to do about Isabella once they found her name?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mrs. Creed's choice of suspects, Bo Richardson, is simply a grasping at straws due to the fact that Bo injured her son the year before. The only thing wrong with this is that Bo is not the only person to have seriously hurt Chris, a fact even Torey cannot escape. The fact is that Bo is the only boon to have seriously injured Chris. This touches on another theme of the novel, categorizing people or class distinction.

1. Do you think poor people are more apt to be accused of a crime than wealthy people? Why or why not?

2. Why do you think Mrs. Creed wants to suspect Bo Richardson of killing her son?

3. Do you think poor people are more likely to commit crimes than wealthy people? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Torey and Ali are upset by the treatment they feel Bo is receiving, and they insist that Mrs. Adams do something to help him. Their attitude changes Mrs. Adams' attitude, and she begins seeing reality instead of preconceived perceptions in regards to Bo and his status as a boon, touching again on one of the major themes of the novel.

1. To what theme do you think this sentence refers? Use examples from other parts of the book where you've seen this theme.

2. Discuss what a theme in a novel is and how themes are shown throughout a book. Include in your discussion other themes you have noticed in this novel.

3. Why do you think Mrs. Adams has seen Bo in a different light following the visit to the police station in Chapter 10? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 13, Ali and Torey's conversation reveals not only more depth to each of their characters, including Ali's motivations for ruining her own reputation and Torey's unhappiness in his perfect life, but it also provides more depth to the repercussions of Mrs. McDermott's own destructive behavior.

1. What do you think this statement means? Use ideas from the book and your own life to support your answer.

2. What do you think are the repercussions of Mrs. McDermott's behavior? Use ideas from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Why do you think the conversation between Ali and Torey revealed more of their characters? Use ideas from the book and your own life to support your answer.

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