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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 was Good News born?

2. In Chapter 9, when does spring start?

3. What nationality was Oddball's mother?

4. Who finds Innerd's body in Chapter 11?

5. What is Oddball suffering from when he comes to Janina's house in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. What have been Janina's careers?

2. What does Janina say the police could not find last September when they were looking for a beast?

3. What does Oddball say about his family?

4. What do Janina, Boros, and Oddball do when they meet in the evening in Chapter 11?

5. Who is Good News?

6. Who does Janina see in the woods in Chapter 10, and what does he look like?

7. Who dies in Chapter 13, and what are the circumstances of his death?

8. How did Innerd die, and where was his body found?

9. Who wins prizes for the best costumes at the mushroom picker's ball?

10. How does the writer tell Janina to write a memoir?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Innerd’s body is found in the forest. What does Boros determine about Innerd’s death? How does taphonomy reveal how Innerd died? What is symbolic about the findings?

Essay Topic 2

Where is the title of the book derived from, and what does it symbolize?

Essay Topic 3

Boros Sznajder is an entomologist. What does an entomologist study? What is Boros’s purpose as an entomologist? Why might people consider some endangered species more important than others?

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