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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 Candy believe happened to Samantha?

2. How does Candy kill people?

3. What does Frank carry with him?

4. How does Bobby know Julie?

5. What indicates to Frank that he should leave his current location?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bobby's dream about Julie change from the start where it is the ideal life in their new home?

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

3. What insights does Julie have about her brother and what does she think will make him happy?

4. What does Frank see as he looks out the window of the abandoned apartment complex he has chosen as his hiding place?

5. What does Bobby say to Julie to reassure her that she is a good person?

6. Why does Frank want to leave the alleyway?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

How does the author represent the idea of working to achieve a dream in this novel? Do you think this is an accurate representation? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Which characters in the novel were portrayed as victims? Do you agree with this portrayal? Which characters do you believe were truly not victims and made their own decisions? On what do you base this assertion?

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