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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. Which of the following was not true about Jean?

2. Kinsey is hired to investigate a crime that Bailey Fowler was accused of committing seventeen years against Jean Timberlake. What was he charged with?

3. Kinsey finally decides to visit Shana in her small apartment. What has Shana been doing?

4. Bailey was picked up in Los Angeles not long before Kinsey was hired. Why?

5. What problem does Ann have with her mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the lawyer tell Kinsey about Bailey's first brush with the law, before Jean's death?

2. Who joined Kinsey and Pearl in the bar and what did Kinsey learn from him? What happens at the end of the conversation?

3. After her visit to the high school, Kinsey heads over to the San Luis Obispo jail to meet with Bailey Fowler. What is his mood and what does he say about Jean?

4. Where does the Fowler family live? List the three family members who live there and briefly describe each one.

5. Who is Henry Pitts and how does Kinsey feel about him?

6. Bailey calls Kinsey in her new motel room. What do they talk about? What happens at the end of the conversation?

7. After losing her phone connection with Bailey, who calls Kinsey? What is the result of this call?

8. When Kinsey goes to the Eucalyptus Mineral Springs Hotel spa for the first time, what does she observe there? Who owns the hotel?

9. After Kinsey returns home from her first meeting with Royce Fowler, what does she do to find out more about Bailey Fowler and Jean Timberlake? What does she learn about Bailey?

10. What happened at the motel after Bailey escaped from the courtroom?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tone refers to the attitude of the narrator of a work. Through Kinsey, as the narrator of F is for Fugitive, what is the author's tone at different stages of the book? Explain the tone, with examples:

(1) At the beginning of the book, when Kinsey takes on the Fowler/Timberlake case

(2) When Kinsey is doing the groundwork of her investigation

(3) When Kinsey is coming up against obstacles in her investigation

(4) When Kinsey gets the answers she needs to solve the case.

Essay Topic 2

Define climax as part of the plot structure in literature. Where does the climax occur in F is for Fugitive? What is the result of the events of the climax? What does it reveal about the purpose of the story?

Essay Topic 3

F is for Fugitive is a first person narrative, told from private investigator Kinsey Millhone's point-of-view. Briefly explain how the first person narrative is effective and how it is limited. Give four specific examples that show how the story is effective told from Kinsey's point of view, and how our vicarious experience of them is enhanced.

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