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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 food does Letch love that others detest?

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

3. As Rita catches Johns, how do many of them react?

4. Why does Ambrose choose Blaze for the job?

5. What is the clincher that gets Simon excited in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Letch try to help Dawn?

3. How does the Keeper of the Cup feel about his plan to keep the Cup?

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

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

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

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

8. What does Blaze Duvall think of Serenity Jones?

9. Who is number 63?

10. Why is the role of the Keeper of the Cup so important to the Keeper?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Serenity Jones is a madam in Floaters. How does Wambaugh show her humanity? What other characters are initially off-putting but grow on you, as the reader? What might be Wambaugh's reasons for doing this? What does this show about him as both a writer and a former police officer?

Essay Topic 2

How did you feel when you read the part of Floaters in which Dawn is murdered? How does this compare to when Blaze is murdered? Did you feel the same way? Why or why not? Were you prepared for either of these murders? Why or why not? How might this play into how you felt during the murders?

Essay Topic 3

Rita cannot wait until her time as a vice cop is over. Why does she hate this area of law enforcement? Why might Wambaugh have included this information? How do Rita's feelings regarding vice compare to those of Anne? Why might Wambaugh have included this information regarding female vice cops?

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