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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. Where does Stephanie take her grandmother?

2. Who cannot find Fred in their account book?

3. Who else does Stephanie talk to about Fred?

4. What does Stephanie tell Ranger she needs?

5. Why do Stephanie and Lulu go to see Briggs?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Stephanie get injured in the aftermath of the redecorating project and do you think she will not participate in any more such projects?

2. What was Fred doing on the day he goes missing?

3. What is suspicious about what Shempsky tells Stephanie at the bank?

4. What is possibly foreshadowed in what Morelli tells Stephanie about Rameriz?

5. Why do you think Stephanie keeps encountering Ramirez and how does she forgo the perfect opportunity for help?

6. Why does Briggs say he cannot go with Stephanie and what does he do?

7. What is on Lula's car when Stephanie and Lula return to it from shopping and what is Stephanie's reaction?

8. What happens when Stephanie and Ranger go running in the morning and why do you think it happens?

9. Who does Stephanie encounter at the funeral home and why is her response a little hypocritical?

10. Why does Larry Lipinski commit suicide and is the suicide perhaps suspicious?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are many incidences of irony in High Five. Discuss the following:

1. Trace and analyze five incidences of irony.

2. Why do you think authors write irony into their stories?

3. Do the ironic situations in High Five enhance the reading experience? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the following to discuss:

1. Compare/contrast Joe Morelli to Ranger.

2. Compare/contrast the relationship of Joe to Stephanie to that of Ranger to Stephanie.

3. Compare/contrast the type of "community" in which Stephanie lives to your own.

Essay Topic 3

Stephanie Plum is a bounty hunter. Discuss the following:

1. What is a bounty hunter as it is used in this novel?

2. Why do you think someone would choose the job of bounty hunter?

3. Would you be willing to be a bounty hunter?

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