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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 does the person in question #112 plan to do?

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

3. For whom had the dead man worked?

4. Why does Stephanie drive to Morelli's home?

5. Why does Ranger want Stephanie to quit watching the Ramos family.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Evanovich do organizationally that helps keep the reader turning the pages?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Some of Stephanie's friendship have a history that goes back to a time when Stephanie is a young girl. Some of them at the very least go back to her high school years. Discuss the following:

1. Choose one of Stephanie's longterm friendship and thoroughly analyze it to include why you think it has lasted and if you think it is a relationship that has "depth" to it.

2. What are the advantages of having friendships for many decades?

3. What are the disadvantages of having decades-long friendships?

4. There is a musical round whose first lines are "Make new friends, but keep the old." Do you think this is good advice?

Essay Topic 3

Despite Stephanie's job as a bounty hunter, there is an air of gullibility and innocence about her. Discuss the following:

1. Trace/analyze the scenes in which Stephanie seems either gullible or innocent.

2. Does Stephanie's gullibility/innocence impair her in fulfilling her job as a bounty hunter? Why or why not.

3. Do you think if Stephanie continues in this job for years, she would lose her gullibility/innocence? Why or why not.

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