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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 was part of the Underground Railway?

2. Who reveals that Philip Murphy is a morphine addict?

3. What does Annie cook on Dave's stove in Chapter Eight?

4. In what type of business is Didi Gee's office?

5. Who says, "In a few more weeks we're going to be stringing some green trout"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the Biloxi cops go to Murphy's house to search for his dead body?

2. What is known about the contract killer?

3. What happens with Dave's job when he is reinstated?

4. Why does Didi Gee want Jimmie dead?

5. Dave confronts Philip Murphy and plans to take him back to New Orleans. What is the outcome of this?

6. What does Dave tell Captain Guidry about Cletus in Chapter Eleven?

7. What does Annie do and feel when she wakes up to find Dave has gone following their first night together?

8. When Dave first begins tailing Cletus, he notices that Cletus is hung over and apparently has a real problem with alcohol. What does Dave predict for Cletus's day?

9. What does Dave do before asking Andres questions, and why?

10. What clue does Andres give Dave about weapons?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

By Chapter 2, the reader is introduced to two police officers, one who currently works in vice, and the other who used to work there. According to Dave, things never went well when he "had to deal with the people in vice." Discuss the impression you get about the type of people who work in vice. Be sure to discuss both Sergeant Motley and Cletus Purcel.

Essay Topic 3

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."

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