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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 or what are Papa Celestin and Sharky Bonnano that the author mentions in Chapter One?

2. Rumor has it that who owns an aquarium filled with piranha?

3. Who says, "Most people just roll over when violence comes into their lives"?

4. In Chapter Three, what is Dave doing on his houseboat when the Treasury agent visits?

5. What name do the three men in Chapter Three call Dave?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Johnny, a criminal, want to give Dave, a cop, information? What information does he give him?

2. What does Cletus do that escalates the situation with Segura in Chapter Four?

3. How does Cletus respond when Dave confronts him about provoking the situation with Segura and his man?

4. Where, and with whom, does Dave greet the dawn at the beginning of Chapter Seven?

5. When and how does the reader first find out about Dave's time in Vietnam?

6. Dave sometimes thinks of whom as his "father's misplaced seed"?

7. What does Dave do to convince Annie Ballard that he is a New Orleans's cop?

8. What is Fitzpatrick's theory about what Segura is doing?

9. Why is Fitzpatrick angry with Dave in Chapter Five?

10. About what does Dave bait Murphy in the beginning of Chapter Seven that elicits a reaction from Murphy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write about other meanings, besides the obvious physical one, that this statement at the end of Chapter 5 might have: "Then my trio of friends squeezed the remaining air out of my chest, the blood out of my ear, the light from my eyes."

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Dave's relationship with his father and his current feelings about the man. What impact does Dave's father have on him?

Essay Topic 3

Write about the theme of good versus evil citing examples from this book.

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