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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 conclusion do the items in Carla's apartment lead Myron and Dimonte to come to about her death?
2. What kind of boots does Dimonte wear?
3. At the beginning of Chapter Fourteen, what does Dimonte ask about the people with whom Greg Downing hangs out?
4. What is the B Man's specialty?
5. Why can't the blood found at Greg Downing's be Greg's?
Short Essay Questions
1. What information do Myron and Win uncover about Carla at the Swiss Chalet in Chapter Six?
2. Why does Myron feel he owes something to Greg Downing?
3. When Carla/Sally is found murdered, what things are found at her apartment and what do these things indicate about the dead woman?
4. Why does Esperanza say she does not go to see Myron play with the Dragons and does Myron seem to agree or disagree with her feelings about his return to basketball?
5. What do Win and Myron discover in Greg Downing's bedroom and what does their discovery imply?
6. What discoveries does Win make about Greg Downing in Chapter Twenty?
7. What behaviors of Greg Downing's described by Clip Arnstein in Chapter One make Downing an unconventional professional basketball player?
8. Who is Norman Lowenstein and what relationship does he claim he has with Sally?
9. Why doesn't the New Jersey Dragons team want word of Greg's disappearance to leak to the press and what story do they use in the media to explain the fact that Greg is missing?
10. What ulterior motives does Audrey have when she gets a ride home from Myron in Chapter Sixteen?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the depiction of women in Fade Away. What professions do the women in the novel have? What is the relationship of the female characters in the story to the male characters, i.e. are the female characters subordinate to the men and in traditional female roles or are any of the women in dominant and/or nontraditional roles? Give examples of how the novel's female characters exhibit typical or atypical gender role behavior for the era in which the novel is set. What do you think Harlan Coben is trying to say about women through the novel's female characters? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 2
Fade Away takes place in present day New Jersey in the cultural milieu of professional basketball. Discuss how the geographical, chronological, and cultural settings affect the story and how the characters and story might differ if Harlan Coben had set the novel in in a different chronological or cultural setting. Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Myron Bolitar's re-entry into professional basketball as a player. What does Clip Arnstein hope Myron's playing again will accomplish? What does Myron hope his playing again will accomplish? What does Jessica hope Myron's playing again will accomplish? What do Win, and Esperanza fear Myron's playing again will accomplish? How good of a player does Myron think he is and how good of a player is he in reality? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
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