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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 is the circular Bunchy points out?

2. Where does Stephanie go from the mall?

3. What does Aunt Mabel tell Stephanie?

4. Who commits suicide?

5. Where do Stephanie and Lulu go?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the implication that Fred took pictures of the body with a disposable camera?

3. Describe and briefly analyze Stephanie's experience chauffeuring the Arab teen.

4. What happens to Stephanie in the parking lot at the garbage company and do you think she should do anything about it?

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

6. What two clues does Stephanie learn as she studies the photos from Fred's desk and what may one or both foreshadow?

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

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

9. Who is following Stephanie and what does she do about it?

10. What are the photos Mabel show Stephanie and what do you think it might foreshadow?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Stephanie finds herself struggling with her desire to have a committed relationship with Morelli or a hot affair with Ranger. Stephanie's affection tends toward Morelli despite his past reputation as a womanizer. Discuss the following:

1. Do you think Morelli can stop being a womanizer if he marries Stephanie (or any woman)? Why or why not.

2. Why do you think Stephanie only thinks of Ranger in terms of an affair rather than marriage?

3. Who do you think wold make the better husband--Ranger or Joe Morelli?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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