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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. Where does Reacher think Morrison's missing body parts will be found?

2. What is the name of the town where the story takes place?

3. Where do Finlay and Reacher go to talk after the third and fourth murders?

4. Chapters 7-8: What happened to the last chief of detectives?

5. Whose phone number is found on a note in the murder victim's shoe?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Reacher learn that he and Hubble are not on the holding floor?

2. Why does Stoller's girlfriend, Judy, assume that Stoller is dead when Reacher and Roscoe come to the condominium?

3. Why does Reacher believe that Spivey has arranged to have him killed?

4. In Chapter 11, what does Reacher realize about the attack in the bathroom at the prison?

5. Why doesn't Reacher get any useful information from Spivey?

6. Why don't the old barbers need customers to make a living?

7. How does Reacher describe his relationship with his brother?

8. Why does Reacher drive to Atlanta at the beginning of Chapter 17?

9. Why does the main character assume that the police are at the diner to arrest him?

10. What does Charlie want Reacher to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Reacher compares the changes in his life after his brother died to the changes that occur in the Arctic because of stresses in the floes. Explain the changes in Reacher's life after his brother's death and why those changes are as dramatic as changes in the topography of the Arctic.

Essay Topic 2

Reacher is very careful before he trusts Finlay. Argue that there were other times in the novel when Reacher should have been more careful before deciding that people were trustworthy.

Essay Topic 3

Explain why freedom is important to Reacher and what he will do to be free.

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