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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Alexander Ramos flag down Stephanie?
(a) To ask her for a ride to get cigarettes.
(b) To ask her about Bob.
(c) To tell her that she left her book at his townhouse the week before.
(d) To tell her to stop spying on him.

2. How do the people at Stephanie's office keep Mitchell and Habib from following her?
(a) They put a large bag of dog poop by Mitchell and Habib's car and light it.
(b) They call the fire department that Mitchell and Habib's car is on fire.
(c) They tie up the two men.
(d) They go and surround the car while Stephanie escapes.

3. Why is Dougie upset?
(a) Because Grandma stole the ounce of grass.
(b) Because Grandma stole the car.
(c) Because Mooner is leaving to go to Los Angeles.
(d) About what direction his life is headed.

4. How do Stephanie and Lula's find the townhouse?
(a) Absolutely empty.
(b) As if no one has been there for years.
(c) Totally wrecked.
(d) The master bedroom is neat and the guest bedroom is in disarray.

5. What happens when they put Bob in the car?
(a) He bites them.
(b) He pees.
(c) He howls.
(d) He poops and pukes all over the back seat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is waiting for Stephanie the next morning?

2. Who does Stephanie talk to about her conversation with Alexander?

3. What does Ramos say about Hannibal?

4. Where does Mooner overhear a conversation about Homer and Arturo?

5. Why does Stephanie buy a door alarm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the parallel between Stephanie and cars, and Ranger and dead bodies?

2. What happens when Stephanie talks to Cynthia Lotte and what does this say about Stephanie?

3. Do you think Stephanie is going beyond what Ranger asked her to do as far as the Ramos case?

4. Stephanie manages to get to her gun and shoot Munson in the foot. It seems unlikely that Stephanie under the stress of the circumstances intentionally aims and shoots Munson in the foot. What is more likely to have happened is that she pointed the gun and pulled the trigger and it happened to hit Munson in the foot.

5. Is there any justification for Stephanie committing a felony (breaking and entering) when she and Lula go into Ramos's townhouse?

6. Why do you think Stephanie goes to the trouble to buy an alarm at Radio Shack just to catch Ranger sneaking into her house?

7. How does Stephanie's relationship to Mitchell and Habib change in this section?

8. How does the situation with Mitchell and Habib and their dog napping demonstrate a narrative contrivance?

9. Why are the crime organizations angry at Homer and could this have something to do with his alleged death?

10. Why do you think Stephanie is so amenable to doing what Ranger asks her to do?

(see the answer keys)

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