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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 visit again?

2. Who does Stephanie feel after her encounter with Ramirez?

3. Where does Ranger take Stephanie the following day?

4. Where does Stephanie go from the mall?

5. Who else does Stephanie talk to about Fred?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe and briefly analyze Stephanie's experience chauffeuring the Arab teen.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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