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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. To where does Stephanie return?

2. How does Briggs escape being taken in?

3. What does the family talk about at dinner that night?

4. Where does Stephanie meet up with Tank?

5. Why does Stephanie think the pictures Fred has in his drawer were taken by a disposable camera?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Stehanie's income uncertain and she must be good at what she does?

2. What does Ranger's redecorating job entail?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A number of characters in High Five are people who are living on the wrong side of the law or at the very least at the edge of legality. Discuss the following:

1. Trace and analyze two characters who live in the "grey zone" between legal and illegal.

2. Compare/contrast Stephanie's attitudes towards lawbreakers versus that of Joe Morelli.

3. Compare/contrast Joe Morelli's attitudes towards lawbreakers versus that of Ranger.

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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