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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 feel after her encounter with Ramirez?

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

3. To whom does Stephanie give the pictures she found in Fred's desk?

4. With whom does the addict get into a shooting match?

5. In what crime does Stephanie think Fred was engaged?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This novel belongs to the general literary category of fiction and the genre of detective fiction, although it has characteristics of other genres also. Discuss the following:

1. Define the term genre.

2. Why do you think books are categorized by genre? What are the advantages? The disadvantages?

3. Discuss in what ways you think High Five belongs to the detective fiction genre.

4. To what other genres could this book possibly belong?

Essay Topic 2

There are many incidences of irony in High Five. Discuss the following:

1. Trace and analyze five incidences of irony.

2. Why do you think authors write irony into their stories?

3. Do the ironic situations in High Five enhance the reading experience? 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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