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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. Who is following Stephanie when she goes out?

2. What does Aunt Mabel tell Stephanie?

3. Who else does Stephanie talk to about Fred?

4. What does Stephanie do to deal with what she ate?

5. What does Stephanie believe Fred saw?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens at Brigg's apartment at the beginning of chapter 2 and do you think Stephanie needs to be more aggressive?

3. What is ironic about Fred taking his garbage bags out behind the butcher's?

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

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

6. What does Ranger's redecorating job entail?

7. Why do you think Grandma Mazur wants Stephanie to find Fred?

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

9. What possible scenario does Stephanie come up with pertaining to her uncle's disappearance?

10. What does Stephanie learn about Fred and how was one of these facts already hinted at in chapter one?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In any detective novel, there are usually serious crimes such as murder involved. Discuss one of the following:

1. Discuss and analyze what you think are three of the primary motivations for someone to murder another person. Include examples from this story and your own reading.

2. Is crime taken seriously in High Five or does the fact that so much of the novel is farcical suggest that crime, even murder, is secondary to the story?

3. Discuss and analyze how greed is a primary motivation in a large percentage of crime both in this story and in "real" life.

Essay Topic 2

Stephanie is presented as a bumbler but who ultimately is successful despite the comical and sometimes dangerous situations in which she finds herself. Discuss one of the following:

1. Do you think Stephanie sees herself as a bumbler? Does Joe Morelli see her that way? Does Ranger?

2. What personality traits makes Stephanie so appealing to men? Which ones might be a turn off to them?

3. Discuss two of Stephanie's strong points and two of her flaws and how they affect her actions in the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following:

1. Do you think being a bounty hunter is an appropriate occupation for a woman? Discuss fully.

2. Do you think Stephanie Plum could be considered a successful bounty hunter?

3. Compare/contrast the way Morelli views Stephanie's occupation versus the way Ranger views it.

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