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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. Where do Lenz and Kaiser interview Frank Smith?

2. What secret does Wendy let slip about the body which the FBI found?

3. Why does Jordan want to save the gunman?

4. Where does Wheaton tell Glass all of his victims are buried?

5. How could Thalia's childhood be described?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Kaiser wait outside Laveau's house for Jordan to finish questioning her?

2. What does Smith confess to Jordan about why he and Wheaton have heated arguments?

3. What kind of relationship did Wheaton have with his mother?

4. What does Kaiser confess about his failed marriage when he is in Jordan's hotel room?

5. How does Laveau disappear?

6. What does Juan confess to the investigators about Smith and Wheaton?

7. What does the gunman tell Jordan as he is holding her hostage?

8. What do Kaiser and Lenz threaten to do to Gaines in order to make him talk to them when they first approach him as a suspect?

9. What does Jordan realize about Wheaton when she wakes up in the bathtub?

10. How do Jordan, Kaiser, Baxter, and Bowles feel about how the questioning of their four suspects went?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Present a well-reasoned paper arguing whether the reader is supposed to find Jill a likable (independent, determined young woman) character OR an unlikeable (too focused on image, standoffish with her sister) character. Make sure to use specific examples from the text to support your thesis.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the relationship between Jordan and Jill. Using direct evidence from the text, make sure to address the following: 1) what their relationship has been like historically, 2) what their relationship is like by the time the novel concludes, and 3) what the reader learns about these two characters through their interactions with each other.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss at least four ways "Dead Sleep" would be different if the protagonist were male.

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