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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 college had offered Mfumbe a scholarship?

2. How is Tova planning to get through another tollbooth?

3. Where are Kayla and Mfumbe after three weeks of traveling?

4. Why did Katie say she does not have a tattoo?

5. What is in the truck where Mfumbe and Kayla hide?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nedra say about Mfume in a letter to the editor?

2. What does Kayla write to Amber?

3. What did Mava's and Tova's daughter warn them about? Why did the daughter treat her mother at home instead of in the hospital?

4. After Kayla says goodbye to Katie, she goes to a diner. What does Kayla see on the diner's television?

5. Why does Kayla lie down in the woods and sleep after leaving the hospital?

6. Why is Kayla sorry she used the computer where she is staying?

7. What does Kayla dream while sleeping in the woods?

8. What does Kayla find as she follows a stream in the woods?

9. How do Kayla and Mfumbe escape the Global-1 officers?

10. Who finds Kayla? What does this person tell Kayla?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are three reasons for reading fiction? Discuss whether each of those reasons is satisfied by The Bar Code Tattoo. Justify your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What is foreshadowing? What are some examples of foreshadowing in The Bar Code Tattoo? How does foreshadowing contribute to the suspense in the book? Give textual evidence for support.

Essay Topic 3

In your opinion, what are the characteristics of a successful novel? Based upon your criteria, is The Bar Code Tattoo a successful novel. Why or why not?

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