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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 Reggie tell Trumann at the end of the story?

2. Who is the guard at the detention center that finds Mark in a zombie-like state in Chapter 31?

3. What is Judge Harry's charge against Slick?

4. What does Reggie hand to Trumann at the end of the story?

5. What does Romey's house look like?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Clint's important role once the FBI agrees to Reggie's demands for the Sways?

2. Why does Reggie try to talk Mark out of foiling the mafia men's attempts to move the dead body?

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

4. 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?

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

6. How does Reggie get back at Foltrigg?

7. What is Mrs. Sway told when she asks why the FBI doesn't just go arrest the mafia men, and what realization does she have?

8. What three questions concern the FBI when they learn of Mark's disappearance from the hospital?

9. Describe how Chapter 31 shows Reggie's growing paranoia after learning that she is a mafia target.

10. Describe Mark and Reggie's farewell.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the Freytag's Pyramid and the Inverted Pyramid writing styles. When is each style used? Discuss the purpose of each style.

Essay Topic 2

While Foltrigg attempts to manipulate Mark into talking, the mafia attempts to keep him from it. Select a character -- either Mark or Reggie -- and discuss how that character's own manipulation is important to the novel. How does the character manipulate people or circumstances? What are the results of their manipulation? Is there anyone on which the character's manipulation does not work?

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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