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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. Why does Fred take the bags there?

2. To whom does Stephanie take a plate of food?

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

4. What does Briggs say to Stephanie when she sees him?

5. What does Ranger return to Stephanie?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is following Stephanie and what does she do about it?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many times after reading a novel, a reader will think it is either a great story or not that good. Part of this evaluation is quite subjective, but part can be traced to some characteristics that exist in most successful or unsuccessful novels. Discuss the following:

1. Articulate and analyze three reasons you think High Five is either successful or not successful.

2. What are some of the things you look for in a novel that make you enjoy the novel? Explain with examples.

3. If you were having a chat with Evanovich and she asks you about your experience reading High Five, what would you tell her.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Despite Stephanie's job as a bounty hunter, there is an air of gullibility and innocence about her. Discuss the following:

1. Trace/analyze the scenes in which Stephanie seems either gullible or innocent.

2. Does Stephanie's gullibility/innocence impair her in fulfilling her job as a bounty hunter? Why or why not.

3. Do you think if Stephanie continues in this job for years, she would lose her gullibility/innocence? Why or why not.

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