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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. When Ambrose finally returns home, the regatta race in on ESPN. What happens?

2. Who is Tamara Taylor?

3. In Chapter 8, to what does Blaze compare the Dawn Coyotes of this world?

4. What unusual piece of clothing does Ambrose wear to the yacht-club brunch?

5. Who does Ambrose think about when he goes into his room to get the money for Blaze?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Fortney, on his third pint of draft at the bar, feeling stupid?

2. How does the reader learn how Dawn would be murdered?

3. What does Blaze believe she hears outside her apartment? What makes her realize she is wrong?

4. What does Fortney learn when he spies on Blaze and Miles?

5. Who do the cops think murdered Blaze and why?

6. Why is Ambrose’s attack on Blaze come as a complete surprise to her?

7. What does Rita Mason hate most about being a vice cop?

8. How does Miles surprise and irritate Blaze?

9. Why does Rudolph give Dawn’s location to Oliver?

10. Why does Blaze hurriedly pack and leave her apartment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Ambrose always needs to be in control. What details from the story support this? How does this need for control lead to his demise? How important is control in the lives of the other characters? In what ways do the characters have control and in what ways are they controlled? Are they aware of this? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Wambaugh gives both Dawn and Blaze wholesome real names. Why might he have chosen the names he did? How do these names aid the reader in connecting with both Dawn and Blaze? How might these women feel about their given names and to the past to which those names are tied?

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