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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 does Stephanie try to reach at the garbage company?

2. What does Bunchy want Stephanie to do?

3. Who wants Stephanie to find out about Fred?

4. Who does Stephanie visit again?

5. Who cannot find Fred in their account book?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Family is an important theme in High Five. Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze Stephanie's relationship to her family.

2. Compare Stephanie's relationship to her family to the relationships your own family.

3. Discuss the attitudes towards family by five characters in the novel.

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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