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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 blackmailer demand that Myron leave in his car before exiting it?

2. Which of the following statements does not describe Marty Felder?

3. Which of the following statements is not a factor Myron recognizes about the killer in the video?

4. What happens when the coach puts Myron into the game in Chapter Twenty Six?

5. What information does Esperanza request to investigate her theory about the link between Carla and the blackmail of Greg Downing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Myron's relationship with his parents.

2. How does Cole Whiteman describe the murder that the Raven Brigade has been in hiding for since the Sixties?

3. What evidence seems to indicate Emily Downing as Carla's killer and how does Emily explain this evidence to Myron in Chapter Thirty One?

4. Why does Win go to Arizona at the end of the novel?

5. Why does say she killed Carla?

6. What facts in Chapter Twenty Two make Esperanza think Clip Arnstein knows more about Greg Downing's disappearance and Liz Gorman's murder than he has revealed?

7. Does Myron's meeting with Marty Felder in Chapter Twenty Eight solve any of the puzzles he's investigating or does it deepen the mysteries surrounding Greg Downing?

8. In Chapter Twenty Four, what does Clip Arnstein admit to knowing about Sally/Carla and her relationship with Greg Downing?

9. How does Myron figure out where to find Cole Whiteman and what alias Cole is currently using?

10. What happens when the B Man visits Myron at his office in Chapter Twenty-Three?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Harlan Cohen uses a number of red herrings or false clues in Fade Away to make it seem as if the mystery is going in a certain direction, then he surprises the reader when the mystery actually goes in a totally different direction. Cite at least three examples of red herrings from the novel and discuss how Cohen uses this technique to increase the suspense and heighten the dramatic tension in the story.

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 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.

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