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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. Who does the agent tell them they have arrested?

2. Where do Jimmy and Lorrie go the day before Thanksgiving?

3. What is the third child born to Jimmy and Lorrie and when?

4. What are Punch's three demands?

5. Why is Jimmy relieved?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is so significant about the gunman's identity?

2. How does Punchinello first respond to the request for a kidney for Annie?

3. What three things does Punchinello want to get in return for any cooperation?

4. How is Jimmy able to overcome his fear and propel himself into action?

5. What gives Jimmy's position away when he is waiting for the gunman to pass, and why is that fortuitous?

6. What details must Jimmy attend to when they get to the hospital?

7. What fills Jimmy with a sense of foreboding?

8. What birth defect does Jimmy inquire about that reduces Punchinello to tears and why does it?

9. What surprise do Lorrie and Jimmy get when Agent Carson is sent over by Huey Foster?

10. What does Konrad want from Lorrie and why does he feel he is entitled to it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What fears do Annie and Lucy share? How are they described by the girls? How is their fear different from the fear that Adam has? Why is Adam's fear strangely like a premonition? How do the fears that the two girls share save them from the sight of Konrad dead, and their mother injured on the floor in the kitchen? What does Jimmie tell them to get them to stay away despite their fear?

Essay Topic 2

What do Jimmy and Lorrie ask of Punchinello? How does he respond to this request? Why does Jimmy go back in to see him after they had already left? What changes Punch's mind? What one request does he have in return for the precious gift they require of him? Why does Jimmy so readily agree? Does Jimmy ever intend to fulfill his part of this agreement? Why not?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Lorrie write the last few chapters of Jimmy's memoir's? What conclusions does the reader draw from the fact that Jimmy does not finish the story of his five terrible days? Where does Lorrie's version of events begin? How does she start her narration and in what ways is it similar to the narration as it was originally written by Jimmy?

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