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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 Raymond think about Harvey considering the restaurant to be his own?

2. How many undercover police officers are watching the chef as he leaves the restaurant in Chapter 7?

3. Where is Tommy at the beginning of Chapter 6?

4. How does Tommy react to the chef's offer of drugs in Chapter 15?

5. Where is Tommy walking to in the beginning of Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. What phone call does Tommy get in Chapter 8 and how does he respond?

2. What does Al inform Raymond of in Chapter 5?

3. What upsets Sally during his meeting with Danny in Chapter 13?

4. Which information is Al lacking in Chapter 16?

5. How does the chef try to get away from the police in Chapter 7 and what happens to him?

6. What does Tommy say to Sally after Freddy is murdered and how does Skinny act as they are driving away?

7. What happened to Tommy's father?

8. Who is Raymond Sullivan and what is his agenda in Chapter 5?

9. What happens when the chef buys some more drugs in Chapter 19?

10. How does the coroner react to the body found in the Prologue?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Select three examples of incompetence on the part of Al and/or the police from the book. For each example, explain how the incompetence added to the plot and the reasons why Bourdain chose that/those character(s) as the source of it. Also, include your description of the overall place of incompetence within the story, and why it had such a major role in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the styles of Sally and Skinny in committing murder, using a number of examples from the book as a reference. In your comparison, include the difference in both characters' reputations and positions within the mob organization.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the concept of loyalty and the various ways that it is presented in Bone in the Throat.

1) Describe Tommy's loyalty to Sally, how it begins, how it is altered, and why it is ultimately dissolved.

2) Explain Tommy's pact with the chef and why it is a significant part of the story's conclusion.

3) Analyze the loyalty between Tommy and the chef as compared to the loyalty between Sally and the mob.

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