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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 has Mooner returned to Stephanie's place?

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

3. Why does Stephanie buy a door alarm?

4. Who does Stephanie see leaving the Ramos property?

5. Where does Grandma hear someone talking about Homer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Stephanie Plum is a bounty hunter. Discuss the following:

1. What is a bounty hunter as it is used in this novel?

2. Why do you think someone would choose the job of bounty hunter?

3. Would you be willing to be a bounty hunter?

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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