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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 Lizzie spend all her money on after learning her killer is unidentified?

2. What do the parents say about Lizzie at the beginning of the book to comfort themselves?

3. What does Sadie ask Lizzie for?

4. What was Lizzie doing when she died?

5. What does Lizzie have to speak to take the job she is first offered in the land of the dead?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Curtis, and how does Lizzie know him?

2. How does Lucy plan to deal with her grief at the beginning of the book?

3. How do people in Elsewhere age?

4. What clues does Lizzie have to her death?

5. Who is Betty, and how does she know Lizzie?

6. Who is Thandie, and how does Lizzie meet her?

7. What does Lizzie spend a lot of money on when she first gets to Elsewhere?

8. What does Aldous Ghant do for a living?

9. What is surprising to Lizzie about the captain of the Nile?

10. What does Lizzie try to tell her family when she contacts them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The characters in this book all had their own goals and motivations. Select four characters and write their main motivation throughout the book and how this goal affected the characters around them.

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances affect that characters involved in those scenes?

Essay Topic 3

What elements from this book place it in the Fantasy Genre, and how do you feel this changed the tone of the plot?

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