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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 old is Cleopatra Highbourne?

2. What is the name of Donna Kay's restaurant?

3. What are Tully and Donna Kay drinking as they talk in the tree house?

4. Who was singing in the bar the night Kirk Patterson and Bucky Norman met?

5. What does Tully hand to Cleopatra as the Lucretia sails to Punta Margarita from Tulum?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Dr. Destin Walker?

2. What is the secret to navigating the waters off Punta Margarita?

3. What happens when the wind starts blowing through the tree house in Chapter 9?

4. How do Bucky Norman and Kirk Patterson meet each other?

5. How does Tully come to meet Cleopatra Highbourne?

6. How was Tully inadvertently a matchmaker for Donna Kay and Clark?

7. What does Ix-Nay tell Tully about the fishing spot called Quiet Time?

8. What surprising thing does Cleopatra do after Tully successfully guides the dinghy through the Mayan cut?

9. Why does Willie Singer have such a hard time leaving Hawaii?

10. What does Bucky hire Tully to do at Lost Boys?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how the chapter titles are not just clever or humorous, but serve a bigger purpose in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the use of truth and discovery of the truth as a theme. What is ironic about this theme in a novel full of people and events who push the realms of reality?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Buffet weaves literary works and movie references into the novel to help illuminate themes. Use specific examples.

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