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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 the perfume that Catherine always wears when she visits Decker?

2. Who makes Bobby's boat into the coffin that Bobby is buried in?

3. How many interchanges does the state highway board "graciously" grant to Weeb's development project?

4. What is the name of Bobby Clinch's mistress?

5. At the airport in Orlando, what does the flight attendant refuse to let Skink board the plane with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pickney characterize bass guides when Decker asks Pickney for his help in finding a guide?

2. At the beginning of the story, while he's filming the next episode of his fishing show, why is Dickie Lockhart frustrated?

3. According to Lanie Gault, what made Bobby Clinch different from all the other fishermen at the bass tournaments?

4. When Decker first sees the state trooper after arriving back in Harney, Decker notices something different about this trooper. What makes this trooper different from the others?

5. Why does Decker not bother to hide his expensive camera equipment in his trailer home?

6. When Catherine visits Decker at his trailer, she asks Decker what he plans to do with the money he'll get from investigating the cheating case at the tournament. What does Decker tell her?

7. Why does Decker leave his first profession out of high school and accept a job at a local newspaper?

8. Why does Bobby Clinch like to drive in the fog?

9. Why does the vice president of the Outdoor Christian Network not like the name Lunker Lakes for the community development?

10. When Pickney asks Decker why he got a divorce, what does Decker say?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

R.J. Decker's first job out of high school was as a professional photographer. Discuss Decker's professional photography positions, as well as why Decker chose to leave photography behind and become a private investigator. Then, expand your discussion to include the ironic fact that Decker's life is saved during the story through the clever use of his camera. How might Decker's life - and the story - have changed if Decker's first love had not been photography? Explain your reasoning.

Essay Topic 2

Bobby Clinch and Ott Pickney can be seen as kindred spirits. Although they are not quite the same, they share a number of similarities. Identify and describe these similarities. Then, based on your discussion of their similarities, identify the ways in which these two men's similarities facilitate the plot's development and moves the story forward.

Essay Topic 3

Identify the three main demands of Dickie Lockhart when he confronts Charles Weeb in Weeb's New Orleans hotel room. For each demand, tell Lockhart's reasoning behind the demand, what Lockhart hoped to accomplish through the demand, and the likelihood of the demand actually being met by Weeb.

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