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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 does Roger wrap the pizza order around to throw it to the police?

2. Who does the bank robber text to say she is okay after the hostage situation ends?

3. Which of the hostages had a bag of stage blood?

4. How wide does the man who takes the pizzas open the door when Jim arrives?

5. When does Estelle say that she stopped watching fireworks from the balcony?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jim suggest that the bank robber do?

2. How do the police get the pizzas to the hostages?

3. Why does Lennart look like he is bleeding in Chapter 61?

4. Why does Lennart go to the closet for some pants?

5. Why is Roger right when he says that the top floor of the building used to be one apartment?

6. What gift does Roger give Ro in Chapter 39?

7. During Lennart's interview, what does Jack say about marriage?

8. How did Julia and Ro meet and start their relationship?

9. How does the bank robber get the key to the other apartment?

10. What does Nadia tell Zara about getting close to people?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The bank robber’s husband has an affair. What does the narrator think happened to the bank robber’s marriage? Why does the narrator think complacency played a part in the failure of the marriage?

Essay Topic 2

The setting in a book is the place or places where the action takes place. Where does the story take place? Is the setting simply a backdrop to the story and characters or does it take on the role of a character?

Essay Topic 3

Colors are sometimes associated with mood. If you could assign a color to represent the mood Anxious People, what color would it be? Why? Would you choose different colors to describe the mood in different sections?

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