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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 watching TV at Stephanie's place when she gets home?

2. What does Ramos say about Hannibal?

3. Where does Stephanie go when she is released by her kidnapper?

4. For whom had the dead man worked?

5. Why does Stephanie not go to Morelli's?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think Alexander means when he says Homer killed himself?

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

3. Why is Stephanie's grandma moving back to Stephanie's parents' home and what do you think is the implication?

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. How does Stephanie obtain information about the Ramos family in her "own back yard" so to speak and how is this ironic?

9. What is Stephanie's response to Ranger's warning about the Ramos family?

10. What does Stephanie's grandma buy and what do you think this symbolizes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Some characters in Hot Six are bumblers who seem to make things come out alright in the end and some are bumblers who cannot seem to set things right.

1. Compare/contrast a bumbler character (other than Stephanie) who seems to have luck versus one who doesn't.

2. Why do you think so many of Evanovich's characters are inept?

3. Compare/contrast Stepahnie's ineptness with the way Ranger or Joe Morelli operates.

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the following to discuss:

1. Compare/contrast Joe Morelli to Ranger.

2. Compare/contrast the relationship of Joe to Stephanie to that of Ranger to Stephanie.

3. Compare/contrast the type of "community" in which Stephanie lives to your own.

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 Hot Six belongs to the detective fiction genre.

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

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