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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 the homicide team gathers, what do they wonder about the location of Blaze’s body?
2. What is Blaze’s response when Anne tells Blaze that if Dawn had been in Blaze’s position, she would have done the right thing and given information?
3. When Simon appears, who is with him?
4. Who does Boggs want to take down Oliver Mantleberry?
5. When Ambrose finally returns home, the regatta race in on ESPN. What happens?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Rita Mason hate most about being a vice cop?
2. Why is Fortney, on his third pint of draft at the bar, feeling stupid?
3. Why does Blaze feel uncomfortable talking to Detective Anne Zorn?
4. Why does Blaze hurriedly pack and leave her apartment?
5. Why does Ambrose kill Blaze?
6. What is Fortney’s response when Leeds asks him if he lost all hope in Nam?
7. Why does Rudolph give Dawn’s location to Oliver?
8. What is the stupid thing that Fortney does?
9. What does Blaze believe she hears outside her apartment? What makes her realize she is wrong?
10. How does Miles surprise and irritate Blaze?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
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
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?
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