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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. About what is Stephanie unsure?

2. Who does Stephanie visit at her ex-husband's office?

3. For whom had the dead man worked?

4. What does Ramos ask of Stephanie before she drops him back at his house?

5. Where does Ranger want to take Stephanie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the parallel between Stephanie and cars, and Ranger and dead bodies?

2. 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.

3. What theme concerning the relationship between Morelli and Stephanie seems to be a thread in Hot Six?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Do you think Stephanie is going beyond what Ranger asked her to do as far as the Ramos case?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Stephanie's relationship to men is often laced with sexual innuendo. At the opening of the novel, Stephanie is wondering if her mother's worst fear has come true: she's a nymphomaniac, lusting after lots of men. Discuss the following:

1. What is the definition of nymphomaniac?

2. Is Stephanie truly a nymphomaniac? Why or why not?

3. Do you think Stephanie actually lusts after lots of men? Or just two men in particular?

4. Why do you think Stephanie is actually quite restrained in what she does with her feelings of attraction?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Compare/contrast Stephanie to her mother.

2. Compare/contrast Stephanie's mother to Stephanie's grandmother.

3. Compare/contrast Stephanie to Lula.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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