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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 Lucy see outside the Holocaust Memorial Museum?

2. What is another word that the townspeople called Abenaki?

3. What does Spencer believe that Gray Wolf is to Cissy?

4. What did Mrs. Sizemore remember about dinner with Cissy and Spencer at the Ethan Allen Club?

5. What does Eli ask Dr. Holessandro about Cissy's baby?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Cissy's father's views of Genocide?

2. What did Eli's mom mean by "passing?"

3. What does Az mean when he tells Meredith that he will share and be at the Pike property when she is there?

4. Who is Ruby referring to when she talks about someone she knew who was a sleepwalker?

5. When Cissy tries to tell her husband who her father is, what does Spencer do?

6. Why is Shelby bothered by words like kill or die?

7. What is the significance of Spencer locking Cissy in her room? What does that mean?

8. According to Ruby, what was the heart attack a warning of?

9. Why does Ruby continue to lie to Ross about Cissy's baby?

10. What does the baby poop prove?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the love story of Shelby and Eli. How will the connection of these two people unite several families? How will this couple break barriers that still exist?

Essay Topic 2

What does it mean when Eli's mother talked to him about "passing?" From the information in the novel, can you tell what this was? What was his mother trying to do? What price do you think Eli paid for his mother's beliefs? Was he also protected by her beliefs? How?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the odd happenings around town and how the people reacted to them. Why does the town not panic?

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