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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 Lucas ask Roux to do if he asks her to?

2. What does Lucas learn about Crosby that leads him to believe Mail is not dead?

3. Whose body is found hanging inside the grain storage shaft?

4. Why was Lucas called to the police station in the middle of the night?

5. At the end of chapter 27, where is Lucas heading?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Lucas and his group waiting to get confirmation about and what happens when they finally do receive it?

2. How does Lucas know that Mail has set a trap for the police?

3. What is unique about the message that Mail gives to Lucas and why and how does Luca decode the message?

4. What does Lucas see while he is in the shop and what does it turn out to be?

5. Where is Mail when he calls Lucas and what information does he let slip?

6. What does Mail do when he sees the ambulance take his friend away?

7. How does Dunn respond to Lucas's questions about who would benefit from Andi's kidnapping?

8. What information does Lucas learn from the man Sloan shot?

9. Who is Gloria Crosby and what does Lucas learn from her and about her?

10. What secret did Crosby know about Mail and hold over his head?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a justification for Mail's death as being the best solution to the entire situation. Do you agree or disagree with this justification? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

How is greed a theme of this novel? Which characters demonstrate greed? Why do you characterize them as being greedy?

Essay Topic 3

How did the author develop the climax of the story? Do you feel that he did a good job in developing the climax? Why or why not?

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