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1
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What college does Jack teach at

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College-on-the-hill

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2
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What is Jack’s last name?

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Gladney

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3
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How many years has Jack witnessed the return of students?

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21 years

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4
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What is unique about Jack’s town?

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There is an insane asylum

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5
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What is Jack the chairman of?

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Hitler Studies

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6
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When did Jack invent Hitler Studies?

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1968

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7
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What color hair does Babette have?

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dirty blonde

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8
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Who does Babette read to?

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Old Man Treadwell

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9
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What does Babette do for a job?

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Teaches a course in adult education

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10
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Who are Jack and Babette’s children?

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Heinrich, Wilder, Denise, Steffie

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11
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What goes off during lunch in chapter 2?

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The smoke alarm

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12
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Who is the head of Jack’s department?

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Alfonse (Fast Food) Stompanato

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13
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What does Hitler share a building with?

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Popular Culture department

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14
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What is the popular culture department known as?

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American environments

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15
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What did Murray Jay Siskind used to do?

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former sportswriter

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16
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What is the town called?

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Blacksmith

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17
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who does Murray Jay Siskind want to study?

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Elvis Presley

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18
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Where does Murray Jay Siskind live?

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a rooming house

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19
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Where do Jack and Murray travel to?

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the Most Photographed Barn in America

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20
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what is powerful about the Most Photographed Barn in America?

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its aura

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21
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What does Babette do at the high school?

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run up and down the stadium steps

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22
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What is the question that Jack always asks?

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who will die first?

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23
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What does Jack’s family do on Friday nights?

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watch TV

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24
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What did Jack change his name to so people would take him more seriously?

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J.A.K Gladney

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25
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What is Jack’s fear?

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his life is moving too fast

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26
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What does Murray find comforting?

A

the supermarket

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27
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What is unique about Heinrich’s appearence?

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He has a receding hair line

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28
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What does Babette teach twice a week?

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a posture class for the elderly

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29
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What does Jack find instead of an inappropriate magazine?

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a family photo album

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30
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Who teaches Jack German?

A

Howard Dunlop

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31
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Where does Howard Dunlop live?

A

at the boarding house

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32
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What is Murray reading when Jack invited him to dinner?

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American Transvestite

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33
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What does Murray wear?

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corduroy

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34
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Why is Denise and Steffie’s grade school evacuated?

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children and teachers are exhibiting mysterious symptoms like headaches, eye irritations, and the taste of metal in their mouths

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35
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what are The inspectors’ suits made out of?

A

Mylex

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36
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What is Denise reading?

A

Physician’s Desk Reference

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37
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What does Murray talk about the second time in the grocery store?

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Tibetan philosophy of death

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38
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Who does Heinrich play chess with?

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Tommy Roy Foster

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39
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why did Tommy Roy Foster kill?

A

to go down in history

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40
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Where does Heinrich’s mother live?

A

ashram

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41
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what time does Jack wake up in the middle of the night?

A

3:51

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42
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Who loves the smell of burnt toast?

A

Steffie

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43
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How old is Jack turning?

A

51

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44
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What else does Dunlop teach?

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Greek, Latin, sailing, and meteorology

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45
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Why does Dunlop study weather?

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After his mother’s death, he found it comforting

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46
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In chapter 12 who is at Jack’s house when he comes back from his lesson?

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Bob Pardee, Denise’s father and Babette’s ex-husband,

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47
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Who goes missing in chapter 12?

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Old Man Treadwell and his older sister

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48
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How is it discovered that Treadwell and his sister are missing?

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Babette cannot find them when she goes to read to him

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49
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Where do Jack and Babette go before they meet Bob at the donut shop?

A

They file a police report

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50
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Where are the Treadwells discovered?

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The shopping mall

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51
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How long had the Treadwells been missing?

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4 days

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52
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Who do the police call to help them find the Treadwells?

A

a psychic named Adele T.

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53
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Who finds the drug Babette is supposedly taking?

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Denise

54
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What is the drug Babette is taking called?

A

Dylar

55
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Why did Jack name Heinrich, Heinrich?

A

he thought the name had an air of authority and that Heinrich was born shortly after Jack started Hitler studies.

56
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What do Jack, Steffie and Denise do together in ch 13?

A

go through the German-English dictionary together, looking for words that are similar in both languages.

57
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What is there footage on on TV in ch 13?

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a plane crash

58
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Why is Murrary worried about getting the Elvis job?

A

Someone else is more qualified

59
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Why is Dimitros Cotsakis more qualified to teach about Elivs?

A

He interviewed Presley’s family immediately following Elvis’s death and has already appeared on television as an expert on the Elvis phenomenon.

60
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What does Jack offer to do for Murray?

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stop by Murray’s lecture to lend his own influence and prestige to Murray’s campaign.

61
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Who does Jack eat lunch with?

A

The New York émigrés

62
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What do Murray and Jack argue about?

A

If Hitler of Elivs loved their mother more

63
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Why does Jack and Babette take Wildner to the doctor?

A

He wont stop crying

64
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Where does the family take a trip to?

A

Mid-Village Mall

65
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What does denise do on the drive to the mall?

A

tries to confront Babette about dylar

66
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where does jack go at the mall?

A

the hardware store

67
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Who does Jack run into at the mall?

A

Eric Massingale, who teaches computers at the College-on-the-Hill.

68
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Who shows up at the airport instead of Bee?

A

Her mother, Tweedy Browner

69
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Where is Bee flying in from?

A

Indonesia

70
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What does Babette think Tweedy’s problem really is?

A

Tweedy doesn’t know who she is.

71
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Where does Jack stop on his way back from the airport?

A

a graveyard

72
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How does Mr. Treadwell’s sister, Gladys die?

A

“a lingering dread,”

73
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What does Jack do when he reads obituaries?

A

compares the age of the deceased to his own age

74
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Who appears on TV in chapter 20?

A

Babette

75
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What is the toxic substance in the air in chapter 21?

A

Nyodene Derivative, or Nyodene D.

76
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where does the family go to first during the toxic event?

A

abandoned Boy Scout camp

77
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How does Jack expose himself to Nyodene D?

A

He puts gas in the car

78
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What does SIMUVAC stand for?

A

Simulated Evacuation

79
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How long does Nyodene D. live in the system?

A

30 years

80
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What does Murray do to one of the prostitutes?

A

Performs the Heimlich maneuver

81
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What does Steffie mutter in her sleep

A

“Toyota Celica”

82
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Where is the second place the family goes during the toxic event?

A

an abandoned karate studio

83
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How long is the family kept away from their home?

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9 days

84
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how does Dimitros Costakis die?

A

He drowns in the ocean off Malibu

85
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What have become better since the toxic event?

A

sunsets

86
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What does Babette want to start a class on?

A

Eating and drinking

87
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What is the main symptom of the toxic event?

A

déjà vu

88
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Where does Jack find the dylar?

A

taped to the bottom of the bathroom radiator.

89
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What is Heinrich’s friend, Orest Mercator, trying to do?

A

break the Guinness record for sitting in a cage full of poisonous snakes

90
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Who does Jack take a pill of Dylar to?

A

Winnie Richards, a brilliant young neurochemist at the College-on-the-Hill

91
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How long does it take Winnie to analysis the Dyalr?

A

48 hours

92
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What kind of drug is Dylar?

A

psychopharmaceutical

93
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How did Babette find Mr. Gray

A

an ad in the newspaper

94
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What did Babette do in order to take dylar?

A

slept with Mr. Gray

95
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Why does Babette take dylar?

A

to suppress her fear of death

96
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Does Dylar work for Babette?

A

No

97
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who is playing the role of a victim in the SIMUVAC disaster simulation?

A

Steffie

98
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Who else is participating in the simulation?

A

Heinrich and Orest Mercator

99
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Who steals the Dylar and refuses to give it back?

A

Denise

100
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Why can’t seffie visit her mother in Mexico City for Easter?

A

She volunteered for another simulation at that time

101
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How many times did Jack marry Steffie’s mother?

A

twice

102
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What does Steffie’s mother, Dana Breedlove, do?

A

a secret agent who also reviewed fiction for the CIA—long novels with embedded codes

103
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What makes Babette unique?

A

She shares everything/is open with Jack

104
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What is Murray teaching a seminar on?

A

car crashes

105
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What does Jack find at one of his German lessons?

A

The Egyptian Book of the Dead

106
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Why does Babette refuse to tell Jack Mr. Grays real name?

A

she’s afraid he wants to kill Mr. Gray

107
Q

What are the instructions at the beginning of chapter 31 for?

A

paying a cable bill.

108
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When the family is eating in the car, jack reveals there has been sightings of what?

A

UFOs

109
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Who does Jack receive a postcard from?

A

Mary Alice, his eldest child with Dana Breedlove.

110
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What does Murray think about Howard Dunlop?

A

he thinks Howard is the type of man who would find dead bodies erotic

111
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What causes Jack to stop taking German?

A

Murray’s comment

112
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What burns down?

A

The insane asylum

113
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Who does Wilder find sitting in the family’s backyard?

A

Babette’s father, Vernon Dickey

114
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What does Vernon have?

A

a bad smokers cough

115
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What does Vernon give Jack?

A

a german made loaded gun

116
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What is the only thing Vernon tells Babette to worry about?

A

his car

117
Q

What seems off at Jack’s doctor’s appointment?

A

his potassium levels

118
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Where does the doctor tell Jack to go?

A

Autumn Harvest Farms—where they have all of the latest, gleaming instruments—for further tests.

119
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Where does Jack take Heinrich and Orest Mercator ?

A

out to dinner

120
Q

What happens after A SIMUVAC simulation of a noxious odor?

A

a few days later, a real noxious odor settles over the town

121
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How does Jack respond to a call from his ex-wife Janet, (Mother Devi), asking if Heinrich can come and visit her. She tells him she wants only to talk in a spirit of peace and mutual affinity?

A

he hangs up

122
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What does Jack do at The Hitler conference?

A

hides in his office

123
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What does Jack deny at the Autumn Harvest Farms?

A

his exposure to Nyodene Derivative

124
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Why does Murray think Jack studies Hitler?

A

Jack turned to Hitler to save himself from death, to lose himself in Hitler’s power and aura, because “Hitler is larger than death.”

125
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What happens to Orest Mercator?

A

He is bit 4 times in the first 4 minutes of his snake attempt

126
Q

What is Mr. Gray’s real name?

A

Willie Mink

127
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Where does Willie Mink live?

A

a motel room in Germantown

128
Q

Where does Willie Mink live?

A

Roadway Motel in Germantown

129
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What is Jack’s plan for Willie?

A

He plans to find Willie Mink, shoot him three times in the abdomen, fake a suicide note, steal some Dylar, and then drive back to Blacksmith.

130
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Where does Willie Shoot Jack?

A

He shoots him in the wrist

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