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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 does Crab tell Jimmy?

2. Where do Crab and Jimmy spend the night?

3. What causes Jimmy's feelings?

4. What does this tell Crab after this visit?

5. When does Jimmy make this call?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Jimmy's thoughts on returning to the room alone?

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

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

4. What does Crab tell Jimmy about his own father?

5. How does Jimmy find out that Crab is sick?

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

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

8. What does Crab do when Jimmy gets back with the aspirin he asked him to get?

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

10. Where do Crab and Jimmy stay in Chicago?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What makes Crab a father for Jimmy? That is, how does he play that role? What kind of father is Crab?

Essay Topic 2

How surprising is "Somewhere in the Darkness"? What did you expect from the opening chapters, and where did the book diverge from your expectation? How did the book set you up to believe one thing, and then give you another? Where was the suspense generated?

Essay Topic 3

At the end of the novel, Jimmy asks Crab what the goal of going to California would be. How important are goals in "Somewhere in the Darkness"? Does a plan need to have a goal for it to be important? Which characters have different beliefs about this question?

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