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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 catches Hannibal's attention?

2. What movie does Seth watch over and over again?

3. What does the yellow van do when Mary drives by?

4. Who is shot by the people in the red van?

5. What is in Audrey's escape world that wasn't there in real life?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Brad Josephson insist on going back home?

2. Describe the people driving the blue van.

3. Describe the other vans introduced in Chapter 3.

4. Why are Ellie and Ralph not shot?

5. What is strange about the way the Carver children react to their father's death?

6. What is strange about the voice that answers when both Johnny and Collie call 911?

7. What does the yellow van do to Mary's car?

8. What strange situation does Audrey tell Janice about in her letter?

9. What are Ellie and her brother arguing about?

10. What was considered the first real problem of Steve's adult life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain why the animals, plants and other things that the survivors come across look like replications of these things as a child might have created them.

Essay Topic 2

What is Steve's role in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

How does Seth act when Tak is in control of him? How does he act when he is himself?

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