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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 two words did Joe use to describe Stephanie and his relationship?

2. How many other people came in following Maxine?

3. What did Stephanie feel like the next morning?

4. What kind of doughnut does Stephanie take from the box?

5. What did the entire neighborhood smell like?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Morelli want to help Sally into his corset, and why does he have to?

2. What two things did Stephanie find really discomfiting about Morelli and his life?

3. Why did Grandma Mazur frequent the beauty parlor?

4. Where did Morelli sleep the night that closes the chapter, and why?

5. Why did Stephanie's enthusiasm do a dip?

6. How did Stephanie's mother reassure her?

7. Why did Stephanie end up having to cut out her hair?

8. How did Sugar look in drag?

9. Why does Ranger do the job of a bounty hunter?

10. What does Mrs. Nowicki say about harboring a fugitive and what does she say she is doing all this for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Briefly surmise reasons why Eddie Kuntz wouldn't want to leave town. Come up with reasons why he might have told Maxine about the money printing business. How was this to his downfall, and what would you have done differently?

Essay Topic 2

What is the difference between the attitudes of Betty in the beginning and close to the end of this book? How is this behavior suspicious? What changes in the character would be describable as suspicious and why?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Stephanie and Joyce. What kind of people are they? Where do their moral scruples lie? Who would you rather meet on the street?

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