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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 church is seen from the windows of Bing Partridge’s home in "Spicy Menace, 1990"?
2. What is the name of the driver that is supposed to pick up Marta Gregorski and her mother but never shows in "Disappearances, 1991-1996"?
3. What is the name of the store owner at the country store where Vic goes to call the police after escaping from Charlie Manx in "Sleigh House, 1996"?
4. The black-and-white photograph that Vic goes in search of in "The Librarian, 1991" shows a little boy and a woman. Who is the little boy?
5. How are the little boy’s teeth described when he turns to Vic inside the Rolls-Royce in "Sleigh House, 1996"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What gift does Bing recall getting from his father for Christmas in "Spicy Menace, 1990"? What did his father tell him about the gift?
2. What happens to Vic when she returns from the Library across the Shorter Way Bridge in "The Librarian, 1991"?
3. What happens when the little boy in the car grabs Vic by the wrist in "Sleigh House, 1996"?
4. How is the little boy in the car described in "Sleigh House, 1996"? Why does Vic approach him?
5. What are Vic’s first impressions of the house that she finds at “The Other End of the Bridge” in "Sleigh House, 1996"?
6. Where does Bing Partridge live and work, according to the narrator in "Spicy Menace, 1990"?
7. How does Nurse Thornton react to Manx’s “awakening” in "Season's Greetings, December 2008"? What do the doctors observe of his condition?
8. What causes the argument between Vic and her mother when Vic has started high school in "Disappearances, 1991-1996"?
9. What does Charlie Manx say to Nurse Thornton when he speaks in "Season's Greetings, December 2008"?
10. Where does Vic find her Tuff Burner bike in "Disappearances, 1991-1996"? What does she do after finding it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the characters of Christopher and Linda McQueen in the novel. How would you describe Vic’s relationship with her parents in "Shorter Way, 1986-1989"? Is Vic closer to her mother or father? How does this change?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the setting of Haverhill, Massachusetts. How big is the city of Haverhill? Where in Massachusetts is it located? How is Vic’s house described in the narrative? Where is the Shorter Way Bridge in relation to Vic’s home?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Gerard Manley Hopkins’ definition of inscapes and how this concept applies to Vic’s bridge, Maggie’s Scrabble tiles, and Charlie Manx’s Rolls-Royce in NOS4A2. What is an inscape? How are inscapes related to logocentric theology?
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