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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. After badgering him about Jean, what does Dwight Shales admit?

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

3. What do Rick and Kinsey talk about at the pool hall?

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

5. Bailey calls Kinsey shortly after Ori's death. What is his reaction to the news?

Short Essay Questions

1. The morning after she receives a threatening phone call, what does Kinsey overhear at the local diner?

2. When Kinsey goes back to the motel after talking to members of a local family at the pool hall, who does she run into? What does this person tell her?

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

4. Before phoning Shana and Dr. Dunne's office, Kinsey had left the room to avoid seeing Ann give Ori an injection. When she is finished her calls, what happens? What is the result of this?

5. What happens at the end of Chapter 24 that sends Kinsey racing back to the motel?

6. What does the man who headed the Baptist youth group tell Kinsey about the Reverend Haws? How does he know this?

7. 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?

8. What is Kinsey thinking about as she heads off to the Eucalyptus Mineral Springs Hotel spa after having no luck finding Shana at the three places she's checked? When she gets there, who does she talk to?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain what foreshadowing is and how it is used in F is for Fugitive, citing three examples that you believe are examples of foreshadowing. Each example must come from a different scene in the book. Explain how each example relates to the outcome of the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Explain how dialogue in fiction serves as a device to enhance:

(1) exposition

(2) characterization

(3) foreshadowing

(4) resolution.

Give one example from F is for Fugitive that illustrates each of these elements.

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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