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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Lee describe her marriage in Book One?
(a) Over.
(b) Unhappy.
(c) Happy.
(d) Exciting.
2. Who is Harris's friend on the city council that is under investigation?
(a) Steve Ho.
(b) John Murray.
(c) Otto Smith.
(d) Don Cunko.
3. What makes Isaac's journey difficult in Book Two?
(a) His leg is hurt.
(b) His shoes are too tight.
(c) His car keeps breaking down.
(d) He has been shot.
4. What word from Book Two refers to a thing that is necessary for the achievement to an ends?
(a) Requisite.
(b) Inherent.
(c) Obstacle.
(d) Convolution.
5. What is the name of Poe's father?
(a) Otto.
(b) Virgil.
(c) Murray.
(d) Bud.
Short Answer Questions
1. What sport did Poe excell at in high school?
2. What item of evidence does Poe realize he left at the scene of the murder in Book One?
3. Who shoves his hands into Poe's pants during the fight at the car factory in Book One?
4. Whom does Isaac kill at the car factory?
5. How is Isaac's physicality described in the narrative?
Short Essay Questions
1. What takes place in Grace Poe's narrative in Book Two?
2. How would you describe the atmosphere of the setting and characters in Book One?
3. What happens when Harris confronts Poe in the woods in Book Two?
4. What does Poe reveal to Lee about the murder in Book Two? How does she respond?
5. How does the murder in Book One influence the characters of Isaac and Poe?
6. What is revealed through the encounter between Harris and Poe while Poe is in a holding cell in Book Two?
7. What importance does the setting of American Rust play in the story?
8. Where does Isaac encounter the teenage thugs in Book Two? What happens when he encounters them?
9. How is Billy Poe's introduction to the Fayette Prison described in Book Two?
10. What secrets are revealed in Book Two? How do these secrets serve the plot?
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