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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. Why do Bobby and Julie agree to have the police help them find Rasmussen?

2. Who finds Rasumussen?

3. What does Frank find right away in the bag he is holding?

4. What does Julie hope to learn from Rasmussen?

5. What is unique about Verbina?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Candy do with a woman that is the same as what he used to do with his own mother?

2. How is Bobby feeling about his wife and how does he handle these feelings?

3. What does Julie see when she drives toward Bobby and what does she do?

4. What is different about Frank when he wakes up in the motel room?

5. What is Candy doing when he leaves his house and what part is he doing to please his mother?

6. What does Thomas do after he is knocked down to the floor?

7. Describe Bobby and Julie's living situation and why it is this way.

8. What does Frank find when he wakes up in the car?

9. What did Thomas try to tell Julie when she visited him and how did this work for him?

10. What does Frank do after he jumps out of the window of the abandoned apartment complex and what does he hope to learn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Did Bobby and Julie choose a wise course of action when they decided to help Frank? Why do you feel this way?

Essay Topic 2

How did the author make the ideas of teleportation and telekinesis seem real? What techniques did he use to help the characters seem realistic and believable to the reader?

Essay Topic 3

In what way were family relationships described throughout the novel? What relationships seemed to contradict each other? Do you think this was intentional? Why or why not?

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