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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. What does Lipinski's wife demand?
2. Where does Stephanie go for dinner?
3. What does Stephanie realize about Bunchy?
4. Why does Stephanie take the Buick to the airport?
5. What does Morelli suggest Stephanie do?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Stephanie witness at Morelli's house; how does she react and how does she compensate for her feelings?
2. What does Shempsky tell Stephanie about his plans?
3. What is revealed about Fred and Mabel's relationship through mention of what Mabel has been doing?
4. Where does Stephannie take Fred's check and what might this foreshadow?
5. How does Stephanie, along with the reader, finally learn about Shempsky's involvement in the situation Stpehanie (and Morelli) has been investigating?
6. What indicates that there is a strong possibility that one of those involved in the money skimming scheme may work for the bank or the garbage company?
7. What does Morelli tell Stephanie and does this have any effect upon her actions? Should it?
8. What other company seems to have "lost" the names of paying customers and what might this mean?
9. What does Stephanie and Lula learn from the clerk at the garbage company that may turn out to be important?
10. Who else takes Stephanie unawares after she escapes from Rameriz? Is this new situation any more dangerous?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
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
In any detective novel, there are clues that point both to the real criminal(s) versus those that are designed to mislead the readers in order to add suspense. Discuss one of the following:
1. Trace and analyze five clues that are designed to let the astute reader figure out who is the criminal(s).
2. Trace and analyze five clues that are designed to mislead even the astute reader in figuring out who is the criminal(s).
3. Do you enjoy being mislead in a mystery/suspense novel? Why or why not.
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