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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 is Stephanie supposed to take to the airport?

2. Who does Stephanie ask about Shempsky?

3. Where does Stephanie take Fred's check?

4. Who comes up with a scheme to make extra money?

5. Why does Stephanie call Morelli and invite him for dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Stephanie and Lula learn from the clerk at the garbage company that may turn out to be important?

2. What does Stephanie, her grandma and Briggs scheme to accomplish at Lipinski's viewing?

3. How does Stephanie, along with the reader, finally learn about Shempsky's involvement in the situation Stpehanie (and Morelli) has been investigating?

4. Describe the situation of Shempsky being caught.

5. Why does Stephanie think she and Morelli are working on the same case?

6. Where does Stephannie take Fred's check and what might this foreshadow?

7. What does Ranger suggest Stephanie do about the Porsche he offers her and what do you think should be Stephanie's response?

8. What does Morelli tell Stephanie and does this have any effect upon her actions? Should it?

9. What do Stephanie and Mary Lou do and does this seem like a normal, adult activity?

10. Why does Stephanie leave the wedding reception without Morelli and what does she do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

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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