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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. Why do Lula and Stephanie drive to Munson's home?

2. What happens when they put Bob in the car?

3. What does the kidnapper want?

4. What does Grandma buy from the dealer?

5. Where does Stephanie go to check on the liquidation of stolen property?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one thing that is ironic about how Stephanie and Lula manage to finally get Munson into her car?

2. Do you think it is right of Stephanie to ram Joyce's SUV with the Buick?

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

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

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

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

8. Do you think where Stephanie shoots Munson is intentional?

9. Stephanie has bad luck with cars--do you think this is her fault?

10. How is the farcical nature of this novel even more evident in Chapter 11?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In any detective novel, there are clues that point both to the real criminal(s) versus those that are designed to mislead the readers in order to add suspense. Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze 5 clues that are designed to let the astute reader figure out who is the criminal(s).

2. Trace and analyze 5 clues that are designed to mislead even the astute reader in figuring out who is the criminal(s).

3. Do you enjoy being mislead in a mystery/suspense novel? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Much of what happens in Hot Six can be considered farcical. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think is the meaning of the term "farcical" as applied to literature?

2. In what ways do you think Hot Six is farcical? Give specific examples in your discussion.

3. Why do you think Evanovich chooses to depict her protagonist in such a farcical manner at times?

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