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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 do Lulu and Stephanie find back at Lulu's car?

2. Who shows up while Stephanie is asleep?

3. Who does Stephanie visit again?

4. Who is Randy Briggs?

5. Where does Fred take his extra trash bags the Thursday before he disappears?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Bunchy both help and hinder Stephanie in chapter 7?

3. What does Ranger ask of Stephanie and is her response justified?

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. What does Ranger's redecorating job entail?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This novel belongs to the general literary category of fiction and the genre of detective fiction, although it has characteristics of other genres also. Discuss the following:

1. Define the term genre.

2. Why do you think books are categorized by genre? What are the advantages? The disadvantages?

3. Discuss in what ways you think High Five belongs to the detective fiction genre.

4. To what other genres could this book possibly belong?

Essay Topic 2

Some of Stephanie's friendship have a history that goes back to a time when Stephanie is a young girl. Some of them at the very least go back to her high school years. Discuss the following:

1. Choose one of Stephanie's long-term friendships and thoroughly analyze it to include why you think it has lasted and if you think it is a relationship that has "depth" to it.

2. What are the advantages of having friendships for many decades?

3. What are the disadvantages of having decades-long friendships?

4. There is a musical round whose first lines are "Make new friends, but keep the old." Do you think this is good advice?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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