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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 is the name of the narrator's friend?

2. What did Victor ask when he was taken to the police station as a boy and was questioned about the location of his mother?

3. What does the narrator say is the only thing to remain constant in his life as he moved from foster home to foster home?

4. What does Victor feed his mother in the hospital?

5. Why does Victor say he wants his mother to stay alive?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Victor and Denny each doing at the strip club?

2. What does Victor know about Paige Marshall in the first part of this book?

3. What does Victor do when the girl leaves the front desk at St. Anthony's?

4. Describe Victor's relationship with his mother.

5. Why does Victor say that Colonial Dunsboro and St. Anthony's are both trapped in the past?

6. What happens when Mrs. Tsunimitsu recognizes Victor as someone her son saved from choking?

7. In what case does Dr. Marshall tell Victor that he may be his own father?

8. What is Victor's opinion of his divine origins at first?

9. What happens when Victor is questioned at the police station as a boy?

10. What happens when Victor meets Paige Marshal in the chapel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Victor is denying to himself the possibility of being the second coming of Christ, he set out to do things Jesus would not do.

a. What activities does Victor engage in that he thinks Jesus would not?

b. Why does Victor likely pick these activities specifically?

Essay Topic 2

Victor believes he is the second coming of Jesus Christ at one point in the novel.

a. Why does Victor believe this?

b. What is Victor's initial response to this?

c. What is his response after he's had time to think about it?

d. Why does his outlook change?

Essay Topic 3

Victor wants to know who his father is, so Paige Marshall reads his mother's diary.

a. What does Paige tell Victor the Diary says about him?

b. In what ways does Victor reject this news?

c. In what ways does Victor embrace this news?

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