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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. In “Variables,” what does James ask Tiffany to do for him?

2. What is the setting of the novel?

3. Where does James Yager work?

4. What is in the jar that sits on Joan’s nightstand?

5. Who is Zoe at the end of the chapter “Variables”?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the days following “the Night,” what does James stop doing?

2. In “My First Was a Fish," what did the fish’s death convince Jack of?

3. In Part II, “Afterlife,” two days before Blandine exits her body, where does she go?

4. What does Blandine wish she could do?

5. What does Blandine become when she exits her body?

6. What does Blandine talk to Joan about in “Afterlife”?

7. What is Joan Kowalski screening on the website?

8. Why does Blandine get these emails?

9. Why does Joan's boss scold her?

10. What is Blandine obsessed in?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does the character of Jack play in the novel? Why does the author include this character? What other characters, themes, or motifs does he promote or at least affect?

Essay Topic 2

How does Joan's transformation throughout the novel speak to Gunty’s larger point of intersecting lives at The Rabbit Hutch?

Essay Topic 3

How does the author use her narrative form, structure, and setting in the novel?

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