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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. How do Davenport and Connell get to the prison where Price is being held?

2. Who is Randy Leski?

3. What does Price claim the tattoo said that he saw on a possible suspect?

4. What is unique about the people who call in the tip about the license plate seen at the bookstore before Wannemaker is killed?

5. For whom does Jan Reed work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What important event happens as Koop is heading to the bookstore in Chapter 1?

2. Why does Davenport think Junky Doog might be the killer at the beginning of the book?

3. What kind of person is Meagan Connell?

4. What kind of woman was Koop's mother?

5. What does Price insist happened the night he supposedly killed the woman he is in jail for killing?

6. What did Sara imagine was happening when Koop licked her forehead?

7. What kind of case does Davenport watch Weather operate on in the hospital in Chapter 11?

8. Why does Davenport orchestrate an assault with Junky Doog when he meets him at the dump?

9. Why does Weather wake Davenport up to watch the morning news in Chapter 6?

10. What does Junky tell Davenport about cutting women?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss at least four aspects of "Night Prey" that can easily be carried over into another novel in the Lucas Davenport mystery series.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss at least three ways that the violence and/or murder scenes in "Night Prey" are gratuitously violent and why such violence takes away from the plot and/or rest of the text.

Essay Topic 3

Choose at least one female character from "Night Prey" and discuss at least three ways she goes against traditional gender stereotypes of someone like her.

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