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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 Catherine and Sughrue have an intense sexual encounter after their fight?

2. What is Sughrue doing when Trahearne asks him to visit because Melinda is on one of her trips?

3. After making the agreement between Sughrue and Torres, where do Sughrue and the others take Jackson?

4. What does Sughrue do at his acreage in Montana?

5. How does Catherine try to end her relationship with Sughrue?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Trahearne start drinking again?

3. How do Sughrue and Traherne get along in Montana?

4. Why would Betty Sue need convincing to contact Rosie?

5. What are some reasons Sughrue won't accept Melinda?

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

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

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

9. What is Trahearne's failure to write symbolic of? How?

10. Why does Melinda offer herself to Sughrue?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Comment on how the different characters use alcohol. Look at Trahearne, Sughrue and Rosie. In what way does the characters' uses of alcohol characterize them?

Essay Topic 2

Map Trahearne's injuries and hospitalizations. What did each hospitalization symbolize?

Essay Topic 3

Often times, characters "fit" their names, such as "Betty Sue" sounds like a sweet girl that everyone likes. Analyze the characters' names. What do their names say about them?

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