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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 does one woman remember upon seeing Fred's picture?

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

3. Who does Stephanie try to reach at the garbage company?

4. Why does Fred take his canceled check to the garbage company?

5. What do Lulu and Stephanie find back at Lulu's car?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What two clues does Stephanie learn as she studies the photos from Fred's desk and what may one or both foreshadow?

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

6. What does Ranger's redecorating job entail?

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

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

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

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

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 finds herself struggling with her desire to have a committed relationship with Morelli or a hot affair with Ranger. Stephanie's affection tends toward Morelli despite his past reputation as a womanizer. Discuss the following:

1. Do you think Morelli can stop being a womanizer if he marries Stephanie (or any woman)? Why or why not.

2. Why do you think Stephanie only thinks of Ranger in terms of an affair rather than marriage?

3. Who do you think wold make the better husband--Ranger or Joe Morelli?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the follow to discuss:

1. The theme of women in non-traditional roles.

2. The theme of frustration.

3. The theme of male chauvinism.

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