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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 has Mooner brought Stephanie?

2. What stipulation does Ranger place on the task he asks Stephanie to do?

3. Who causes the fire in Stephanie's car?

4. Why are Mitchell and Habib following Stephanie?

5. Why is Stephanie watching Bob?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Stephanie trying to take Munson in to the police station?

2. After Munson rams Mitchell and Habib's car, probably in pursuit of Stephanie, is there now reason for Stephanie to drop this case?

3. What does the reader know about Ranger so far and why do you think Stephanie declines to take on the skip recovery, who happens to be Ranger?

4. What are one or two ways Stephanie demonstrates a piece (flaw?) in her personality as far as rescuing people?

5. What is Stephanie's occupation and does this seem a likely one for her?

6. Do you think Stephanie's feelings for Ranger will interfere in her relationship with Joe Morelli?

7. How is Bob starting to be an asset as well as a nuisance in Stephanie's life?

8. How would you feel if someone like Ranger could easily enter your house and sit beside your bed at 3 a.m.?

9. What is slightly incongruous about how Stephanie is portrayed in the opening scene?

10. Why do Joyce Barnhardt and Stephanie have an uneasy relationship?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following:

1. How does the plot structure contribute to the success of the story? (Or Not)

2. Discuss five times Evanovich uses foreshadowing and how it is fulfilled later in the story.

3. Discuss the use of slang/dialect and lingo in the story and how it does (or does not) make a more interesting read.

Essay Topic 2

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 Hot Six belongs to the detective fiction genre.

4. To what other genres could this book possibly belong?

Essay Topic 3

A number of characters in Hot Six 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 (not those who are mobster types such as the Ramos family members or Stolle).

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.

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