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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 the name of the person in #164?

2. What feeling does Carla Jean have at her grandmother's funeral?

3. What does Bell see at the hotel in Van Horn?

4. What is the reason Chigurh gives for killing the person in #97 with buckshot?

5. How does Chigurh kill Carla Jean?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bell learn about the night of the traffic accident from talking to David's friend?

2. Describe the scene in which Chigurh has a car accident after leaving Carla Jean's house.

3. Who in the family has kept in contact with Uncle Ellis and what does he already know about Bell before Bell can tell him?

4. Why does Chigurh do a coin toss before killing Carla Jean?

5. Who does Bell identify one of the dead victims as and why is this especially difficult for him?

6. How does the hitchhiker react when Moss gives her a thousand dollars?

7. Describe Chigurh's actions after he breaks into Carla Jean's mother's house in Odessa.

8. What does Moss tell the border guards in order to let him pass?

9. What does Chigurh explain while shooting the man who sent Carson Wells to kill him?

10. Why is David lying about no one being with him at the scene of the traffic accident on the night Carla Jean was killed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Project into the future ten years and write a brief synopsis for Bell's life. Be sure to include emotional states as well as physical characteristics, geographic locations, work, hobbies, socialization, etc.

Essay Topic 2

Create a brief character study of Sheriff Bell. What does he look like? What are his positive personality traits? What are some of his negative characteristics? What are his hopes and fears? What motivates him--if anything--at this point?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Moss' hitchhiker. What is her role in the story? What was the author trying to accomplish by creating the hitchhiker character in the novel?

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