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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. What gift does Jacob bring Sarah and the baby in Chapter Five?

2. What does Hank find his wife doing when he returns to the bedroom in Chapter Three?

3. What was the man on the snowmobile searching for in Chapter Three?

4. Whom does Lou point a shotgun at in Chapter Six?

5. While discussing what to do with the money in Chapter One, Hank concludes that to take it would be _______.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hank resolve to do if he is threatened with being caught in Chapter One? How much money is in the bag?

2. Why does Jacob cry in Chapter Three? What argument ensues between Jacob and Hank?

3. What does Hank discover about Penderson when he returns to the car in Chapter Three?

4. What does Jacob ask Hank and Carl when he emerges from the truck in Chapter One?

5. What does Hank do with Penderson's snowmobile in Chapter Three?

6. Why does Hank call Jacob in the morning of Chapter Three?

7. What game do Jacob, Hank, and Sarah play in Chapter Five? What happens afterward?

8. What argument does Hank, Lou and Jacob each make for what to do with the money in Chapter One?

9. How do Sarah's motivations begin to evolve in Chapter Four? What does this indicate?

10. Where does Hank stow some of the money in Chapter Three? How does he hide the fact from Jacob?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the plot development of Alice McMartin, Vernon Bokovsky, and Stephen Bokovsky in the narrative. How does Sarah's discovery change their objectives and actions?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the actions of Hank in Chapters Six and Seven. What led to Hank's shooting his brother? How does he feel about it afterward? What does Jacob know or recall about the events?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Jacob's role in setting up Lou in Chapter Six. What internal conflicts does Jacob face in this scenario and why? Whom does he choose in the end?

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