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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 Lucy tell Pike after he escapes from prison?

2. How many officers came to Dolan's funeral?

3. What happened to Cole's visitor in Chapter 31?

4. What do drivers see when they get close to Palm Springs?

5. Who shoots Laurence Sobek?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Lucy upset with Cole?

2. How does Cole figure the killer is connected to Pike?

3. Why does Cole go to see Mike McConnell?

4. What does Dolan want "a piece" of in Chapter 34, and why?

5. How does Laurence Sobek die?

6. Who is Laurence Sobek?

7. Why does Evelyn Wozniak call Cole?

8. Why does Pike go to Paulette's house?

9. Why do the police show up at Cole's house?

10. What happens to Dolan at Laurence Sobek's house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several of the book's character's lie for various reasons. Identify the major lies told in the story. Who tells the lie(s) and why? How do those lies hinder or progress the events in the story? How is the lie revealed as such? Who, if anyone, discovers the truth? Use specific examples from the story in the response.

Essay Topic 2

Elvis Cole has two important relationships in the story--one with his friend and partner Joe Pike and another with his girlfriend Lucy Chenier. At times, the reader feels that Pike and Chenier are fighting for Cole's attention. Compare and contrast Pike's and Chenier's relationships with Cole. How does Cole balance between the two people? Why does he choose one over the other? How does the character who is pushed aside react? What do Cole's actions and his relationships with these two characters say about his personality? Use specific examples from the text in the response.

Essay Topic 3

L.A. Requiem is told from a first person point of view, using Elvis Cole as the narrator. How does having Cole as the sole narrator help or hinder the plot's development? What information can Cole provide the reader that other characters would not be able to provide? What information is hidden from the reader because Cole is the sole narrator? Use specific examples from the text in the response.

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