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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 favor does Dolan ask Cole?

2. Who gets in Frank Garcia's face at Karen's funeral?

3. What was Karen doing when she met Joe Pike?

4. What is Lucy's job?

5. What does Aimes do to Pike?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the media come to Karen Garcia's funeral?

2. How does Karen find out that Pike is in love with another woman?

3. Why does Pike come to Cole's house in Chapter 10, and how do they interact?

4. What are Cole and Pike looking for at Karen's apartment?

5. What does Cole see on the television when he returns home from Karen's funeral?

6. What strange thing does Cole discover about the criminalist's report?

7. Why does Dolan come to Cole's house in Chapter 18?

8. Why is Frank Garcia blaming the police for Karen's death?

9. Why does Cole talk to Curtis Wood?

10. How do Cole and Pike get access to Karen's crime scene?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Curtis Wood/Laurence Sobek spends much of his time trying to look and act like Joe Pike in order to frame him for multiple murders. Compare and contrast Pike and Sobek/Wood. How are they similar? How are they different? What must Sobek/Wood change about himself to make him more like Pike? Why was he or why was not he successful at his impersonation? Use specific examples from the text in the response.

Essay Topic 2

Joe Pike and Elvis Cole are a somewhat unlikely pair of best friends. Compare and contrast Pike and Cole. How are they similar? How are they different? What about those similarities and differences enables them to not only be friends, but also to be co-workers? Use specific examples from the story in the response.

Essay Topic 3

The reader does not learn a great deal about Pike's emotions and personal relationships with women. In the story, Pike has intimate relationships with two women--Paulette Wozniak and Karen Garcia. Describe these two relationships. How are they similar? How are they different? How do these relationships show another side of Pike the reader has not seen previously? Use specific examples from the text in the response.

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