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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 Stephanie give Ranger?

2. What does Morelli want when he comes over?

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

4. How does Stephanie get rid of Munson?

5. What does Ranger say when he calls Stephanie?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

9. Why do you think Stephanie goes to the trouble to buy an alarm at Radio Shack just to catch Ranger sneaking into her house?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are many incidences of irony in Hot Six. Discuss the following:

1. Trace and analyze 5 incidences of irony.

2. Why do you think authors write irony into their stories?

3. Does the ironic situations in Hot Six enhance the reading experience? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

Family is an important theme in Hot Six. Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze Stephanie's relationship to her family.

2. Compare Stephanie's relationship to her family to the relationships in the Ramos family.

3. Discuss the attitudes towards family by 5 characters in the novel.

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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