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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 had happened to Blaze’s sister, Rosie?

2. What is Anne’s response when Boggs asks her if she thinks he is becoming obsessed with this case?

3. What does Taylor know about Oliver’s recent behavior?

4. What does Blaze think she hears when it is Dawn crying out?

5. Who is Tamara Taylor?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Blaze make Ambrose practically fall in love with her?

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

3. What does Anne Zorn remember about her days as a vice cop?

4. Why does Blaze call Simon from her hotel room?

5. Why does Ambrose kill Blaze?

6. What is the stupid thing that Fortney does?

7. What does Ambrose hope for, if the Black Magic can be destroyed?

8. Why had Anne Zorn ended up in several bad marriages?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Loneliness is an important theme that affects each of the characters. How does this theme connect the characters to each other? At what times in their lives have the characters felt less alone? Why might this time have been fleeting? How does this theme influence the overall tone of Floaters, as well as its various plot lines?

Essay Topic 2

Although the police work very hard to solve the two murder mysteries, they never bring the murderers to justice. Why are they never able to catch the killers? What does this say about the police force? Since Wambaugh is a retired police officer, how is this even more telling?

Essay Topic 3

As Floaters comes to an end, what new plot line is formed? Why might Wambaugh have created this new plot line, as the other plot lines end? Is this plot line necessary? Why or why not?

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