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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. How does the FBI eavesdrop on Muldanno's restaurant conversation?

2. What does Mr. Lewis vow to have ready in just a few days?

3. Which brother catches the other stealing their mother's cigarettes?

4. Who is Mark's mother?

5. What does Reggie's intentional stalling on Mark's behalf force the district attorney's office to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe The Blade's physical appearance.

2. What makes the investigating officer suspicious of Mark's story at the scene of Romey's death?

3. Discuss Judge Harry Roosevelt's dedication to his job.

4. How does Mark react when he learns that Reggie is a woman, and how does her gender affect his decision to "hire" her?

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

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

7. What is ironic about Foltrigg's choice of a juvenile hearing for Mark's testimony?

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

9. Foltrigg is naturally upset not to get the desired results from Mark's juvenile court hearing. Why does he regain excitement quickly?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the genre of The Client and the sub-genre category under which the novel falls. Is there another genre the novel might also be classified as? Support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

A main character has both good and bad qualities, giving the character dimension. Discuss Mark's bad qualities. Who is to blame for those qualities? Are the "bad" qualities really bad? Support your answers.

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