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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. Who is the kidnapper's partner at the Jennings's home?

2. What does the kidnapper do to keep Karen from knowing where they are going?

3. What does the FBI want to have completed before the kidnappers are tipped-off that they are suspects in the kidnapping crime?

4. How old is Abby when she is kidnapped?

5. In the beginning of Chapter 3, who does Hickey attempt to reassure that Abby is safe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What important information about Cheryl is revealed in Chapter 5 when Will tries to get Cheryl's gun?

2. Describe how Huey Cotton is depicted in Chapter 1.

3. What type of meeting is Will the keynote speaker at, as described in Chapter 2?

4. Explain the events of Hickey's kidnapping of Abby in Chapter 2.

5. Describe the drug Restorase that Will is presenting at the medical association meeting, as described in Chapter 4.

6. In Chapter 10, Will's connection with the cell phone provider is explained. What is it?

7. What is so significant about the amount of money chosen for ransom as described in Chapter 3? What will Hickey, Huey, and Cheryl it use the money for?

8. Describe how Abby's health makes the kidnapping different from the others, as described in Chapter 4.

9. In Chapter 7, why does Karen cooperate with Hickey's demands of having sex with him?

10. In Chapter 10, what evidence is given that Huey will do anything that Hickey asks him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe what the term external conflict means and how external conflict was important to the book.

Essay Topic 2

Explain exactly what Joe Hickey does to each of the mothers of the kidnapped children. Explain how these actions affected both Margaret McDill and Karen Jennings.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the author's use of the protagonist versus the antagonist throughout the book. In your opinion is there more than one protagonist? Antagonist? Give specific examples from the book to support your answers.

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