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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 number chosen by Ambrose?
(a) 48.
(b) 63.
(c) 52.
(d) 8.

2. What is Dawn Coyote’s real name?
(a) Rachel Smith.
(b) Jane Kelly.
(c) Kylie Miller.
(d) Janice Keeting.

3. What is Blaze Duvall drinking at Ambrose’s that she knows she should stop drinking?
(a) White wine.
(b) Tequila.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Beer.

4. In Chapter 6, to what does the narrator compare the gathering of the men around Blaze?
(a) Like bees to honey.
(b) Like sharks on a blood slick.
(c) Like pigs to a trough.
(d) Like a horse to water.

5. Who is Serenity Jones?
(a) Dawn Coyote's aunt.
(b) Blaze Duvall’s madam.
(c) Dawn Coyote's madam.
(d) Blaze Duvall's good friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the cops react when they see Blaze with Simon Cooke?

2. When Letch comes to check in on Dawn, how much money does he give her?

3. How does Rita feel about working as a vice cop?

4. Who puts Fortney in the bay?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is number 63?

2. How does Norman Boggs get the nickname Letch?

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

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

5. Why do the Harbor Unit cops not like lifeguards?

6. What are Dawn’s future plans?

7. What makes wrecking the Kiwi boat difficult?

8. Why does Simon Cooke hate the Kiwis?

9. What two real events let the reader know the time period of the story?

10. What is the significance of Blaze’s name for herself?

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