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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. Where does Ranger take Stephanie the following day?

2. What does Stephanie tell Ranger she needs?

3. What does Stephanie learn at RGC?

4. What is the relationship between Morelli and Stephanie?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who does Stephanie encounter at the funeral home and why is her response a little hypocritical?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Death occurs several times throughout this rather lighthearted novel. Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of death throughout the story.

2. In a somewhat farcical novel such as High Five, can death be a serious topic? Why or why not? Discuss fully with examples from High Five and other literature.

3. Is death more tragic when someone dies unexpectedly young versus someone who dies unexpectedly in their 7th or 8th decade of life? Discuss fully with examples from the book and your own experiences.

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