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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. How is Santa Teresa, where Kinsey works and lives, described in Chapter 2?
2. In Chapter 9, Kinsey heads to Los Angeles. Where does she stay?
3. What does Lyle suggest to Kinsey was the cause of Libby's death?
4. What does Kinsey take out of the pocket of Sharon's bathrobe when she is at Sharon's apartment?
5. When Kinsey asks Charlotte Mercer about Sharon Napier, what does Charlotte tell her?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Kinsey learn when she stops to speak to Laurence Fife's pharmacist before she leaves Montebello?
2. What does the reader find out about the city of Santa Teresa in Chapter 2?
3. At the beginning of the novel, Kinsey is approached by Nikki Fife. What is Nikki's background, and what does she want Kinsey to do?
4. Kinsey visits the firm where Libby Glass worked and leaves her card for a Garry Steinberg to call her. Soon she is talking to Charlie Scorsoni who calls her from Denver. What does Kinsey tell Charlie?
5. What is Kinsey Millhone's occupation, and what do we know about her lifestyle?
6. Kinsey tells Nikki she believes that Nikki is innocent. She agrees to take the case on certain conditions. What are they? What does Nikki do?
7. What other case has Kinsey started working on when she is approached by Nikki?
8. After Nikki writes Kinsey a check for her services, the women talk about Sharon Napier. Who is Sharon and what does Nikki tell Kinsey about her? Whom does Kinsey suggest she herself should talk to?
9. How does Kinsey get to Las Vegas?
10. After her discussion with Charlotte Mercer, Kinsey decides she must find Sharon Napier. How does she do this?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Conflict is a common element of writing in both fiction and nonfiction. Why is conflict so often used in narratives? How can it help move a story along? Give four examples where conflict in "'A' Is for Alibi" occurs and how it helps explain the relationship between Kinsey and other characters.
Essay Topic 2
Define climax as part of the plot structure in literature. Where does the climax occur in "'A' Is for Alibi"? What is the result of the events of the climax? What does it reveal about the purpose of the story?
Essay Topic 3
The role of the protagonist is portrayed in "'A' Is for Alibi" in both a positive and a negative light. Give at least three examples from the novel that characterize Kinsey in both these lights. Analyze one aspect of her behavior in the novel that shows her, as a protagonist, less than perfect.
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