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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the clincher that gets Simon excited in Chapter 6?
(a) Blaze tells Simon this scheme would bring the two of them together.
(b) Simon will become a celebrity.
(c) Simon will be doing his patriotic duty.
(d) Blaze will go on a romantic date with him.

2. What does Blaze tell Simon she will get out of this deal?
(a) A great idea for a best-seller.
(b) A great deal of money.
(c) The satisfaction that the Kiwi yacht is destroyed.
(d) A win for the Americans.

3. Why does Ambrose miss the green flash?
(a) He is in the restroom.
(b) He is daydreaming about the Cup.
(c) He falls asleep.
(d) Madge whispers gossip in his ear.

4. What significant event mentioned in the novel shares this same date but 53 years prior?
(a) Kristallnacht.
(b) The attack on Pearl Harbor.
(c) Pope Pius XII elevated the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese.
(d) The invasion of Normandy.

5. Who comes to Fortney and Leeds’ rescue in Chapter 5?
(a) Two civilians.
(b) Two lifeguards.
(c) Two vice cops.
(d) Two homicide detectives.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Simon Cooke?

2. What is the name of the hotel in which Letch and his partner, Westbrook, catch Dawn?

3. What is Dawn Coyote’s real name?

4. Where does Dawn plan on moving?

5. How does Letch respond when Dawn offers to give them someone else instead of her pimp?

Short Essay Questions

1. What takes place at the Saturday-evening cocktail party that Ambrose attends?

2. What does Letch do to deal with his neighbor’s annoying dog?

3. What does Blaze think about customers who want a real date?

4. What does Blaze Duvall think of Serenity Jones?

5. Who is number 63?

6. Why does Simon Cooke hate the Kiwis?

7. What does Blaze tell Simon she is doing, so that she can get him talking?

8. To what is the wrecking of the French yacht compared and why?

9. Why is New Zealand expected to win it all?

10. How does the thought of losing the Cup feel to the Keeper of the Cup?

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