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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who calls the narrator's name at the start of Chapter 197?

2. How many cows were in the field when the narrator drove through the countryside with Mother and Father?

3. What is the gift that Father gives to the narrator at the end of the book?

4. What does the narrator do when he shuts his mind down?

5. Why does the narrator decide he cannot live with Siobhan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Christopher view reality? Does he live in the same reality as all of the other characters? Or does he live in an altered reality? Explain your answer. Please use examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

How is it that Christopher can look at the clouds and envision an alien spacecraft and other imaginary forms but is so totally closed off to the notion of anything that is not observable in the real universe? Please use examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

What are Christopher's views on God? How does he view God? Does he believe in God? Why or why not? Please use examples from the book to support your answer.

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