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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 color is Helen's purse?
2. What does Helen tell Rhonda she has to do to get past the grief?
3. Which of the following is among the details Carl gives about the cab?
4. What does Carl say is the only fact known about sudden infant death syndrome?
5. What does Nash set fire to in the bar?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Carl begin to make the connection about the poem and the deaths of children?
2. How does Carl come to believe that Helen killed the Stuarts?
3. List at least four details Carl has for his first dead baby story.
4. How did Helen's husband die and what was the official cause of death?
5. What is the significance of the story about the nurse who killed so many people?
6. What does Carl discover about his ability to forget the culling song?
7. What does Helen say about her ability to pray very quickly?
8. What is the Mirror Book and who has one on the trip?
9. What does Helen say about the origin of the culling poem?
10. What does Carl imagine could be the long-reaching effects of having the culling song become public knowledge?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the Wiccan meeting. What aspects of that meeting seem reasonable and realistic and what aspects seem unreasonable? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Describe how the grimoire originally came into Helen's possession. Compare it's original purpose with what Helen uses it for.
Essay Topic 3
Carl's relationship with his parents is severed after the death of Gina and their daughter. Describe how and why Carl reconnected briefly with his parents. What are other aspects of Carl's life that are impacted by the culling song other than the deaths of his wife and daughter?
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