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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 is Baxter's body found in Chapter Eleven?

2. What is the name of the sheriff who calls Hank in Chapter Ten?

3. What is the name of the officer who takes Hank's statement in Chapter Eleven?

4. What do the FBI Agents in Chapter Eleven show Hank in their office?

5. What does Hank yell to the FBI Agent on his way out of Carl's office in Chapter Ten?

Short Essay Questions

1. What mode of action does Hank begin to question in Chapter Nine at night?

2. How does Hank meet Agent Baxter? What is his first impression of him?

3. Who found Carl's body? Where? Who tells Hank?

4. What is Sarah's response to the story told by Agent Baxter in Chapter Nine?

5. What does Hank find in Jacob's apartment in Chapter Eight?

6. What causes Hank distress while giving his statement to the FBI agents in Chapter Eleven?

7. What does Hank tell Sheriff McKellroy and Collins in Chapter Eleven?

8. Whose funerals does Hank attend in Chapter Eight? What stories emerge?

9. Whom is Hank asked to identify in Chapter Eleven?

10. What excuse does Hank give Carl for not accompanying him in Chapter Ten? How does he feel about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the character of Carl Jenkins in the narrative. What threat does Carl pose to Lou, Hank, and Jacob?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of family in the novel. How does Jacob's bear represent family symbolically in Chapter Five?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the author Scott Bechtel Smith. For what major works is Smith most known? What screenplays has the author adapted and/or written?

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