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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 call to get from Clint after returning to the hotel in Chapter 38?

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

3. What are the failed body retrievers doing until they go back to get the body?

4. Who does Reggie call to tell her whereabouts?

5. Who will Reggie meet at the airport?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How does Mark convince Reggie to look for the body in the garage with him?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What are the terms Reggie outlines to the FBI in exchange for the location of the senator's body?

9. Discuss the rumors associated with the senator's death.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is Reggie's desire to help less fortunate clients an act of charity or co-dependency? Explain and support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

What is the difference between conflict and crisis in a novel? How are they similar? Also, relate the differences and similarities specifically to The Client.

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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