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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 the killer call himself?

2. Who regales Jimmy with the myriad of possibilities for disaster?

3. What kind of hat does Punch wear?

4. Who shows up shortly after, pleasing the killer?

5. What 'gift' does Punch give Jimmy and Lorrie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Jimmy and Lorrie encounter as they are getting ready to leave for the hospital?

2. What is the purpose of the tunnel and who built it?

3. How does Lorrie's demeanor help the situation that she and Jimmy find themselves in?

4. How do most residents in Snow Village make their living?

5. What does Jimmy do to try to get away from the man in the Hummer?

6. What does Jimmy tell Punch in an effort to ensure that no harm will come to Lorrie?

7. What does Lorrie reveal to Jimmy about her family?

8. What is the most significant curiosity regarding Jimmy's family's relationship to food?

9. What things does Jimmy reveal about himself to Lorrie before he proposes?

10. What do Lorrie and Jimmie argue about where Crinkles is concerned?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What happens on the fifth terrible day that Josef Tock predicted? How does the Tock family respond when the doorbell rings? Who is standing there and what does he want? Why does he panic when Jimmy tries to refuse his delivery? What is the delivery and why does the boy's last comment unnerve Jimmy to some degree?

Essay Topic 2

What does Lorrie reveal to Jimmie after they have managed to subdue and restrain Konrad Beezo? How does she explain the way she feels to him? What is she so grateful for, and why does she want him to know this now? What is so exceptionally different in her mind between her life and his? What does she admit to him that renders him speechless? How does it make him love her even more?

Essay Topic 3

How does Jimmy propose to Lorrie? What things does he reveal to her during his proposal? What does this tell the reader about his personality and the type of character he is? Why does Lorrie turn him down at first? What does Jimmy do that changes her mind? How does she explain the reason that she turned him down, and what request does she make of him at that time?

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