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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 the angry person do to Kinsey after showing up at the restaurant?

2. Why is Kinsey so anxious to get hold of Shana Timberlake on the phone at the beginning of Chapter 21?

3. What were the names of the staff members that Jean saw a lot of in her last year of school?

4. How does the doctor react to Kinsey's injuries that his wife inflicted on her?

5. What was the person who confronted Kinsey on the spa property holding?

Short Essay Questions

1. After Ori's death, Kinsey goes to Shana's apartment. What does she find outside and what information does this object tell her?

2. The night of Kinsey's attack at the spa she goes to the pool hall. Who does she talk with there? What does Kinsey learn?

3. At the beginning of Chapter 21, Kinsey phones both Shana and Dr. Dunne's office. What does she want to know? Is she successful?

4. What is Ann's reaction to her mother's death? What does she speculate caused it?

5. Kinsey is woken up during the night after meeting with members of a local family at the pool hall. What wakes her up and what is the result of this?

6. Why does Kinsey head over to the Baptist Church after finding the item outside the apartment? What happens there? Where does she go next and what does she speculate about?

7. After Kinsey checks out the spa property, who is she confronted by? What does this person tell her? What does Kinsey do?

8. What is the reaction of the spouse of the person who attacked Kinsey at the spa? What is the name of this person and what do they tell Kinsey about Jean Timberlake?

9. Kinsey decides to go visit Tap Granger's widow, Joleen. What is her impression of Joleen? What does Joleen tell Kinsey about Tap?

10. What does the spa owner admit to Kinsey about Shana and Jean? What is his reaction to Ori's death? What does he say about the father of Jean's unborn child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The setting refers to the time and the place where a story occurs. Discuss the main setting of F is for Fugitive as the background for the telling of the narrative. What elements of the setting would be very different if the novel was set in a large city? Give four specific examples.

Essay Topic 3

Conflict is a common element of writing, in both fiction and nonfiction. Why is conflict so often used in narratives? How can it help move a story along? Give four examples where conflict in F is for Fugitive occurs and how it helps explain the relationship between Kinsey and other characters.

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