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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 is the Vermont state motto?

2. Who is Madame Hedda?

3. What do the Abenaki claim is on the land where they are holding the protest?

4. What is remarkable about the oldest headstone in the cemetery in Comtosook?

5. What does Cissy spill on her lap while having dinner at the Ethan Allen Club?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ross believe about his own power to die? Why does he carry these beliefs with him?

2. On the first ghost hunting case of the novel, what is Eve O'Donnell's description of what is happening in her house?

3. How does Ross avoid his sister after the night at the hospital?

4. What two security reports has Az Thompson writing since working for the quarry?

5. What was the Eugenics Survey of Vermont?

6. How does Cissy show strength when she hires Gray Wolf?

7. Do you think the program outlined in Chapter 6 is a real program? Why? Why not?

8. In Ross's experience, when a parent loses a child, why do they call a ghost hunter?

9. On Meredith's awful blind date, how does she finally get rid of the guy?

10. How does Chapter 5 open?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the descriptions from Spencer's lecture about African Americans? What does he say about the Missing Link? How were you surprised by the information in his lectures? Do you think these were real thoughts and ideas? What would this be thought of as today?

Essay Topic 2

What happened to the Abenaki Indians? How did they lose their land of the years?

Essay Topic 3

What is significance of burial ceremony for Cissy and baby? Why is it important to Az? Why is it important to Eli?

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