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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 Mitch compare DeVasher's head to?

2. Where do Mitch and the others escape to?

3. What does the author describe as sickly-white?

4. What author does Tarrance read on the bus?

5. What does Tarrance instruct Mitch to do as soon as he leaves the office?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mitch say he wants from the FBI in returning for helping them uncover the Firm?

2. How does Tarrance warn Mitch?

3. How does Tammy entrap Avery?

4. How does the Morolto family keep tabs on what the FBI is up to?

5. What does Mitch do instead of going to the FBI?

6. How does Mitch manage to copy Avery's files?

7. How does Andy Patric help Mitch and the others?

8. How does Ray deal with the Nordic man?

9. What does Mitch do at the bank before joining Abby and Ray?

10. Why do both Locke and DeVasher think it is a bad idea to eliminate Mitch?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What suggestions are there in the opening chapters that there is something wrong with the Firm? Why does the Firm think someone like Mitch will overlook any suspicions he has?

Essay Topic 2

Look at the structure of the book.

1. How does the author use character and dialogue to drive the narrative?

2. Discuss elements of the narrative structure; Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

Essay Topic 3

Examine Mitch's upbringing.

1. What was Mitch's upbringing?

2. How has Mitch's upbringing motivated him to succeed in life?

3. Is there any evidence Mitch is hiding away from the traumas of his past?

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