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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 nursery school teacher call Charlie?

2. What does Bart do on the night of January 19th right before falling asleep?

3. Bart places some money in a beer stein that Mary got for him. What does it say on the stein?

4. What does Bart break at the signal of the new year?

5. Where does Bart tell the reporter that he obtained the explosives from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to allow Bart to admit that he is crazy?

2. What does Bart think about when he first sees Mary at the New Year's Eve party?

3. Why is it important that Bart runs into Drake in the den at the New Year's Eve party?

4. Why does Steve Ordner claim that Bart is becoming paranoid?

5. Over the last few months, Bart has changed a lot. What does he think about when recalling the last few months?

6. Why does Drake refuse the five thousand dollar donation that Bart tries to give him?

7. What is the last thing that Magliore agrees to do for Bart?

8. Explain the physical attributes and power of the malglinite.

9. Explain Walt Hamner's Tidal Effect principle.

10. Why does Fenner believe that Bart has gone crazy during the stand-off?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does music mean to Bart?

Essay Topic 2

After finishing the novel, do you, the reader, understand his reasons for doing what he did?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Bart's mental status throughout the novel.

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