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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 happens to the Porsche?

2. What does Stephanie notice behind the butcher's?

3. Who does Stephanie ask for advice about keeping the car Ranger gives her?

4. Why does Stephanie rush off later after dinner?

5. Who arrives to take Stephanie to dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lipinski kill his wife, Laura and Shempsky kill Fred?

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

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

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

5. What does Shempsky tell Stephanie about his plans?

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

7. What other company seems to have "lost" the names of paying customers and what might this mean?

8. Do you think Ranger is interested in marriage with Stephanie?

9. Who else takes Stephanie unawares after she escapes from Rameriz? Is this new situation any more dangerous?

10. What does Stephanie suspect about Shempsky and why is it suspicious that he's not at work? What might this foreshadow?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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?

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