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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. Who is driving to Memphis in a van to avoid flying?

2. Why does Mark want to sue the detention center to which he is taken?

3. How do FBI agents know that Mark was in Romey's car on the day of his death?

4. Why is Reggie furious when she leaves the psychiatrist's office?

5. Why doesn't Mark tell the doctor the whole truth?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Reggie do when she learns that Diane has been fired?

2. Why is the media coverage of Romey's funeral unexpected, and why does it occur?

3. What news does FBI agent Jason McThune share with Foltrigg that makes them believe Mark knows more than he is telling?

4. Describe The Blade's physical appearance.

5. How does Mark make the detention center attendant feel sorry for him when he returns to his cell following his juvenile hearing? What does he get out of the pity?

6. Discuss what the FBI learns through their salt and pepper shaker bugs.

7. Describe the only real-life experience that Mark has had with lawyers until now.

8. How does Mark dodge the important question during his hearing, and what is the result?

9. What is Fink's relationship to Romey, and why is it important to this story?

10. Discuss Reggie's life as a wife, mother, and law school student.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of Ricky to the story? How might the novel have differed if he had not been introduced as a minor character?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the point of view from which The Client is written. Does this point of view make the story more or less believable? Select a different point of view and explain how The Client would have changed if written from it.

Essay Topic 3

Why is dialog important in The Client? How would the story have differed if the author had chosen to omit it?

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