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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 list are all the victims on?

2. What type of car does Sobek drive?

3. Who does Cole call after they leave Sobek's mother's house?

4. in Chapter 23, who is accused of Dersh's murder?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Cole get arrested?

2. Why does Cole go to Palm Springs in Chapter 29?

3. Who is Laurence Sobek?

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

5. Why does Cole go to see Mike McConnell?

6. How does Cole react to his surprise visitor when he returns home in Chapter 30?

7. Why does Evelyn Wozniak call Cole?

8. Where does Cole think Sobek is going when the police barge into Sobek's house trying to arrest him?

9. What do Dolan and Cole discover when they go to the storage facility?

10. Why does Pike confront Wozniak during a Sunday afternoon barbecue?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A requiem is a "mass for the dead." Using this information and the story itself, explain the meaning of the book's title, L.A. Requiem. How is the book's title significant to the plot? What can the reader deduce about the book from the title?

Essay Topic 2

Joe Pike and Elvis Cole are a somewhat unlikely pair of best friends. Compare and contrast Pike and Cole. How are they similar? How are they different? What about those similarities and differences enables them to not only be friends, but also to be co-workers? Use specific examples from the story in the response.

Essay Topic 3

The reader does not learn a great deal about Pike's emotions and personal relationships with women. In the story, Pike has intimate relationships with two women--Paulette Wozniak and Karen Garcia. Describe these two relationships. How are they similar? How are they different? How do these relationships show another side of Pike the reader has not seen previously? Use specific examples from the text in the response.

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