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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 wants Stephanie to find out about Fred?

2. What does Stephanie ask an old friend?

3. Why does Benchy spend the night in his car?

4. Why is Stephanie's uncle missing?

5. What does Stephanie hope she is successful at on Saturday?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Stephanie buy at the mall and do you think it is appropriate for the purpose for which she buys it?

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

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

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

5. Why is Fred in a dispute with the garbage company and does it seem like something an average person would bother with?

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

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

8. How does Stephanie seem to comfort herself when she is feeling off?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Stephanie seems to get herself in and out of difficult and even dangerous situations with very little long-term consequences. Discuss the following:

1. What is a narrative contrivance?

2. Briefly summarize and analyze two situations in High Five where it seems that the only way Stephanie gets out of them is through narrative contrivance.

3. Would you rather there be and improbable event to save one of your characters or would you want the author to be more realistic? Discuss why or why not.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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