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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 know when she sees the painting of Amelia?

2. Where is Mike told to go after he makes love to Lucy?

3. Why does the Ghost say it is silly to steal an entire safe rather than cracking it?

4. What is happening at Mr. Marsh's house when Mike visits Michigan?

5. What does Amelia want to do when she gets home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mike choose to create comic strips of Amelia?

2. What does the Ghost say about the broken safe?

3. What does Mr. Marsh want to use Mike's talents for?

4. How does Mike feel when he hears the red pager beeping?

5. What happens when the back door is left unlocked for Mike at night?

6. What does Mike steal from Lito and why?

7. What does Mike picture as he starts feeling how to open safes?

8. What did Mike's father do when Mike got in the gun safe?

9. What does Mr. Marsh say to Mike while he is drunk?

10. What does Amelia show in her first comic strip for Mike?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What kind of education did Mike receive, and how did it differ from traditional forms of education?

Essay Topic 2

What role does symbolism play in the story, and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Mike say he was a slave, and what led to this enslavement?

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