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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 key element is missing from the police investigation in Part 1, Chapter 9?

2. What is Raleigh's job?

3. Who is hiding out in Raleigh's rental property?

4. Whose trunk is Raleigh trying to retrieve at the beginning of Part 1, Chapter 6?

5. Who owns the land that Raleigh sets out to buy in Part 1, Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Raleigh toss out of his car when he is stopped by a police officer, and what irony surrounds the situation?

2. Why does Pierce Jimson leave the property negotiation between him and Raleigh feeling distraught?

3. What note does Raleigh find in Chapter 5, and what is the truth of the situation surrounding that note?

4. How does Raleigh feel about Aura's TV appearance when he sees her on television during his visit with Flossie, and why?

5. After listening to the cassette tape, what delivery does Raleigh get from his father, and how does it arrive?

6. Who and what does Raleigh's father want him to gather to bring to him in another state?

7. What is Raleigh's perspective of Pee Wee Jimson? What item representing Pee Wee does Raleigh's father want him to collect?

8. What do the people of Thermopylae think Earley has done, and why?

9. How do Raleigh and Mingo encounter a van full of hoodlums, and what happens to the money Raleigh's dad gave him?

10. Explain the first compromising situation in which Mingo mistakenly assumes his wife Vera is having an affair with Raleigh.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the primary theme of Handling Sin? What is a motif from the novel? Discuss both, explaining the difference between a theme and motif in literature.

Essay Topic 2

Define falling action as an element of plot. Discuss in detail the falling action in this book. How did it flow? What role did the falling action have in the story, and how did it work?

Essay Topic 3

Name and discuss the items Raleigh was instructed to collect on his scavenger hunt. Write about the purpose of each.

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