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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. Which prison does Kacey spend a year in?
2. How does Mickey's mother die?
3. What word did Gee despise when it was used to describe Mickey?
4. What does Mickey see on the body of the young woman whose death she is investigating in Part I that makes her think the death is a result of a homicide?
5. Who is the suspect Mickey brings into the police station from the domestic incident call she responds to?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Sergeant Ahearn treat Mickey when Mickey repeatedly asks for information about the homicide victim in Part I?
2. What does Mickey think of her new partner, Eddie Lafferty, in Part I?
3. What did the Nutcracker field trip highlight for Mickey when she was a child?
4. In Part II, who are the people who respond to Mickey when she reaches out looking for Kacey?
5. What is Mickey always afraid of when she is called to the scene in an area with the body of a young woman?
6. Who does Mickey turn to for help when Kacey overdoses for the first time when she is 16 and why?
7. In Part I, what does Mickey reveal about her former partner Truman's handling of police business and how it differs from her own?
8. Why did Mickey decline to attend college even though she was accepted?
9. What does Mickey think of her landlady, Mrs. Mahon, in Part I?
10. What does Mickey refer to when she refers to the "first" time she found her sister Kacey dead?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How, and why, does Mickey entirely change her opinion about Mrs. Mahon from the beginning of the novel to the end? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
What effect does Moore's choice to alternate every section of the novel between the present-day and flashbacks have on the reader? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay exploring Moore's treatment of the theme of trust throughout the novel, especially as it relates to Mickey's relationships with those closest to her.
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