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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. Where do Crab and Jimmy go when Mavis leaves?

2. What does Crab do when they arrive?

3. Where do Crab and Jimmy enter as they cross a bridge?

4. What does Crab receive from the person they encounter next?

5. What does the person they encounter next do to Crab?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Crab and Jimmy on their way out of Chicago?

2. What had Crab's plan for the night been?

3. What response does Rydell make?

4. Describe Crab's interaction with Frank.

5. What does the conjure man tell Crab?

6. What do Crab and Jimmy do in the morning?

7. Where does Jimmy go to collect Crab, and how do they pass the night?

8. Where do Crab and Jimmy go after they secure a place to stay?

9. What does Jimmy think about when he tries to think about Crab as a child?

10. Why does Crab tell Jimmy to go to the room and stay there alone all night?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What kind of morality or values does Jimmy learn from his experience with his father? Does he learn to respect the law? Does he learn not to? What law does he learn to respect? How does he learn this? How does it change or define the beliefs he had in the beginning?

Essay Topic 2

Write an evaluative review of "Somewhere in the Darkness". What is this book's place in culture? What are its uses? Who is its audience? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 3

Would you recommend "Somewhere in the Darkness"? For what purposes would you recommend "Somewhere in the Darkness", and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?

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