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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 is the name of a forested area where the Munton brothers take people against whom they have a vendetta, to kill them?

2. Where does Blake see the doofer in the ending of Chapter 20?

3. What does Rachel ask Blake when he arrives at Hoppers in Chapter 13?

4. Finney arrives in Chapter 13 and confesses what to Blake?

5. Where does Blake go after taking Finney to the hospital in Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Blake don as a disguise in Chapter 18? What is Rachel's reaction when she sees him?

2. How does Blake's love life reflect that of his "thug life" in Chapter 13?

3. What is satirical about Nathan's comments to Blake in the beginning of Chapter 19?

4. How does Blake awaken in Chapter 11 at Sally's flat? What interaction do Blake and Sally have?

5. Where are Blake and Finney in the beginning of Chapter 15? What events does Finney describe?

6. What confessions take place between Leggsy and Blake in Chapter 19?

7. What does Blake discover at the Paul Pry in Chapter 13?

8. Who does Blake encounter when he awakens from his dream in Chapter 16?

9. How are the characters reflected through a moral lens in Chapter 15?

10. What dream does Blake describe in Chapter 16?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of Blake's father in the story and in Blake's character history. How did the death of Blake's father lead to his career in thuggery?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the romantic life of Blake in the narrative and discuss how the protagonist's love life reflects his professional life. How does Blake feel about Rachel and Mandy? What objectives does he have in pursuing each?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and analyze the characters of Blake, Finney and Leggsy in "Deadfolk". How trustworthy is Blake as a narrator and what opinions does he express of his friends?

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