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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Max's tone in Chapter 7 when he calls and leaves a message for the second time?
(a) He sounds less frightened.
(b) He is nervous he will lose his job.
(c) He is worried about Bonnie.
(d) He sounds more frightened.

2. How does Skink respond when Max asks him if he is ever letting Max go?
(a) Skink won't ever let him go.
(b) Skink wants to meet Bonnie.
(c) Skink will let him go when he understands a lesson.
(d) Skink plans on killing him.

3. Towards the end of Chapter 7, Skink gives Max a long shock. What makes him so angry at Max?
(a) Max tries to hit Skink.
(b) Max does not know the answers to questions about Florida.
(c) Max tries to escape.
(d) Max cries about his lack of clothing.

4. How does Edie get her dress?
(a) She sews it.
(b) She buys it.
(c) She borrows it.
(d) She steals it.

5. Why is Max at the bottom of the list of missing persons?
(a) Videotapers are not a priority.
(b) Wayward tourists are not a priority.
(c) He is not a victim of the hurricane.
(d) He is not known to be hurt.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Augustine come into all of his money?

2. What does Bonnie think after Max goes into a family's home to take pictures of the devastation?

3. How is the one-eyed man torturing Max?

4. What does Augustine do after he hears Max on the answering machine?

5. What does Tony propose to Edie as a new deal?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Edie and Snapper's plan surprise the reader now that it is revealed in their conversation with Tony in Chapter 4?

2. Why and how does Bonnie question her choice of a husband?

3. How does the weather create conflict in Chapter 1?

4. How is Max possibly misreading Skink?

5. How has Skink become even more frightening as a character in Chapter 9?

6. What insight does Augustine have concerning Skink that Max does not?

7. In what way is Edie shown as a round character?

8. What kind of a character is Augustine? Please support your answer with evidence from the book.

9. Though Ira Jackson has every right to be angry over the death of his mother, he is no saint himself and perhaps should not be judging Tony so harshly. What indicators has the author given the reader to show that Jackson is not an upstanding character?

10. What does the reader learn of Augustine's background that leads to him being a more dynamic character?

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