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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 will Trahearne pay Sughrue to do?
(a) Follow Melinda.
(b) Keep Trahearne sober.
(c) Find Torres.
(d) Investigate his mother.

2. What do Sughrue and Stacy find in Hyland's home?
(a) A dog fighting ring.
(b) Illegal drugs.
(c) Melinda.
(d) Rosie.

3. What does Trahearne need to be able to write?
(a) Peace and quiet.
(b) Sobriety.
(c) A computer.
(d) Catherine.

4. When Stacy and Sughrue awake, what do they find?
(a) A notice to leave town.
(b) Melinda and Trahearne have gone.
(c) The money they need to leave town.
(d) The police waiting for them.

5. After making the agreement between Sughrue and Torres, where do Sughrue and the others take Jackson?
(a) His home.
(b) A hospital.
(c) His office.
(d) An alley.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Catherine fall in love with Trahearne?

2. Why does Sughrue not accept Melinda's offer of herself?

3. What does Trahearne want to make his novel different than?

4. Once inside Hyland's home, what does Sughrue do for Melinda?

5. What war story does Sughrue reveal to Trahearne?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Sughrue's reaction to finding Melinda at Selma's home realistic? Why?

2. Is it possible for Sughrue to help Trahearne write? Why?

3. How is Catherine's sexual relationship with Sughrue manipulative?

4. How does Trahearne and Sughrue's war-story telling force them to bond?

5. Why would Sughrue immediately head out to California after the phone call from Jimmy Joe?

6. Why would Torres still demand the forty thousand dollars from Melinda?

7. How do the activities that Sughrue and Stacy do epitomize their relationship?

8. What is the novel's tone as Sughrue and Stacy stage an assault on Hyland's house?

9. What does it say about Stacy that she invites Sughrue to her bed after hearing his conversation with Melinda?

10. What is a possibility behind Rosie's reaction to the news about Betty Sue?

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