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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 waiting for Stephanie when she gets home?
2. How does Stephanie capture Munson?
3. Who helps Stephanie get Munson to the car?
4. Why has Mooner returned to Stephanie's place?
5. What happens when they put Bob in the car?
Short Essay Questions
1. Do you think it is right of Stephanie to ram Joyce's SUV with the Buick?
2. What is the parallel between Stephanie and cars, and Ranger and dead bodies?
3. How does Stephanie's relationship to Mitchell and Habib change in this section?
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. How does the situation with Mitchell and Habib and their dog napping demonstrate a narrative contrivance?
6. What does Ranger tell Stephanie when he stops her while she is out walking the dog and do you think Morelli had a hand in Ranger's decision?
7. Why are the crime organizations angry at Homer and could this have something to do with his alleged death?
8. Why do you think Stephanie goes to the trouble to buy an alarm at Radio Shack just to catch Ranger sneaking into her house?
9. What does Stephanie's grandma buy and what do you think this symbolizes?
10. What do you think Alexander means when he says Homer killed himself?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Twice in the book, Carol Zabo threatens to leap off a bridge to her death. Discuss one of the following:
1. Thoroughly discuss and analyze Carol's suicide threats and other people's reaction to them.
2. Research the topic of suicide and discuss who is most likely to actually carry through with a suicide and why.
3. Is suicide always wrong? Never wrong? Sometimes right? Discuss fully.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss one of the following:
1. Do you think being a bounty hunter is an appropriate occupation for a woman? Discuss fully.
2. Do you think Stephanie Plum could be considered a successful bounty hunter?
3. Compare/contrast the way Morelli views Stephanie's occupation versus the way Ranger views it.
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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