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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 do Reggie and Mrs. Sway hear in Chapter 29 that makes the reality of the mob danger hit home?

2. When Foltrigg's men show up to question a person about Reggie's disappearance, what does the person do?

3. Who delivers the grand jury subpoenas to the U.S. Marshal in Memphis?

4. What does Judge Harry ask Reggie to do in Chapter 30?

5. Which hospital is Mark sent to from the detention center?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how Mark created symptoms to get himself sent to the hospital.

2. Explain how the FBI is informed of the exact location of the senator's body.

3. Why does Mark say that he wants to see the senator's dead body for himself?

4. Discuss Gronke's feelings about his assignment to watch Mark and his relationship with the mafia.

5. Having failed to retrieve the senator's body, what does the mafia plan to do now?

6. Describe Mark and Reggie's farewell.

7. Describe Mark's feelings as he and Reggie ride to the New Orleans airport.

8. Discuss Reggie's phone call to the FBI upon returning to the hotel from Romey's house. How does she convey a sense of urgency to Agent Trumann?

9. Knowing that Reggie and Mark are in New Orleans doesn't make the job of finding them any easier. What is the FBI's plan to catch them and to get Mark to talk once and for all?

10. At the end of the book, who gets to the body first -- FBI or mafia -- and how does the reader know?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

What is inciting force and which character is the inciting force in this story? How does the character fulfill that role? Give three examples and discuss the importance of each one in detail.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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