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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. How does Nick feel about Mary at the end of the story?

2. How many tries does it take Allie to type her message?

3. Where does Vari go, while the others are leaving?

4. How does Mary know something must be horribly wrong, as Nick approaches the Twin Towers?

5. How does Nick know he's not ready to go on to the light?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Twin Pier Marauders do to the McGill?

2. What is chiming?

3. What does the McGill look like?

4. How does the prophecy that Allie will be the first and last come to pass?

5. What does Allie do, to prove she has skinjacked the woman in the haunted house?

6. What does Allie grab onto to get on the McGill's ship?

7. What does Allie plan to do after she gets home?

8. What is inside the McGill's safe?

9. How does Mary react when she finds out Nick has helped the thousand children on to the light?

10. Why doesn't Allie free Nick and Lief when she first finds them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the setting of the novel.

Part 1) How is the nature of Everlost, and its rules, and important part of the novel? How do the characters change the setting, and how does the setting change the characters?

Part 2) How does the setting of the novel affect its tone?

Part 3) How does removing the characters from their lives and placing them in Everlost affect the characters' personalities and actions?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the states that Afterlights find themselves in during the novel. Choose an example of a character trying to explore and understand the external world, an example of a character exploring and changing his or her internal life, and an example of a character stuck in a "rut." Compare these three states, their causes, and consequences.

Essay Topic 3

Characters in Everlost gain and use power over each other. Discuss power in Everlost.

Part 1) How is power related to will in Everlost? How does a strong mind and will give a character power?

Part 2) How do characters in Everlost use their power over others, and how does this create conflict?

Part 3) What do characters in Everlost hope to gain using their power and strength of will? To what end do characters use power?

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