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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 is Cletus doing when Dave stops by his house for a visit?

2. What does Jaime always wear on his head?

3. How long has Captain Guidry worked as a cop?

4. What does Dave serve Andres to drink?

5. Who wanted Starkweather dead?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the reader find out about General Abshire in Chapter Eight?

3. Dave confronts Cletus one last time in Chapter Eleven. What does he tell Cletus he can do?

4. In Chapter Eight, when Dave sees Annie's date for the evening, what does he do?

5. What happens to Andres after Dave leaves him in police custody?

6. What is in the Gulf, south of Morgan City?

7. Why is Didi Gee upset in Chapter Ten?

8. What does Dave do with the the glass from which the Nicaraguan is drinking, and why?

9. In Chapter Ten, Dave contemplates how he is not making much of a difference in the world. His brother Jimmie understands that and puts his energy into what pursuits?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Describe the effect of Fitzpatrick's death on Dave. Does he feel responsible? Guilty? If so, is there anything he could have done to stop it?

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