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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 sets Dannie apart from the other Chops?

2. What does Ray notice about Concorde?

3. How did Travis die?

4. What was the reason for the incident Ray mentions between his father and mother?

5. What does Hoover do for a living?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the two people who catch Ray's attention most when he first starts working at The Mayflower Club, and what is each person doing?

2. What is Ray's second plan to win The Bet, described in Chapter 9?

3. What are some of the similarities seen in Chapter 3 between each golf course and its respective members?

4. What is Ray's third plan to win The Bet, and what happens when he attempts it?

5. Which character is the most obsessed with looking at The Mayflower Club and why?

6. What does Ray remember as one of the most elaborate pranks he and Two Down played in high school?

7. What term do the Chops use for members of The Mayflower Club and why?

8. What did Ray do to try to get back into professional golf the season after his uncle's and brother's deaths? Did it work?

9. What happens with the flirting between Ray and Madeline in Chapter 13?

10. What sort of abuse does Ray describe in Chapter 6 when discussing his father?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Authors sometimes use a first person narrator to provide bias that wouldn't be possible through a third person omniscient narrator. Describe Ray's bias in relation to the past events he recalls throughout the book and how that bias might represent the author's attitude toward the topic and theme of the book.

Essay Topic 2

Make the connection between the setting and what we learn about the characters in the novel. Choose three overall adjectives to describe the setting at Ponky. Compare those adjectives to the characters and their actions. Do the characters have anything in common with the setting? If so, what do they have in common? List examples as evidence. If not, how are the characters different from the setting in which their actions take place? Address the same questions, using three adjectives to describe The Mayflower Club.

Essay Topic 3

What examples are there of foreshadowing in Ray's relationship with Madeline? How does the author use foreshadowing to move the plot forward?

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