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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 does Graham reassure Reba about?
2. What does Jacobi's lawyer tell Graham that they were able to retrieve that Jacobi's oldest son had taken?
3. What did the police NOT encounter on the way to Dolarhyde's house?
4. Where does Dolarhyde go?
5. What deadline are the police working against in regard to when the killer will strike next?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Reba refuse Dolarhyde's offer for a ride home?
2. When Dolarhyde has a discussion with the Dragon in Chapter 37 what are the main differences in the two personalities?
3. What does Dolarhyde do when he sees Reba kiss Ralph Mandy?
4. After Graham is given the remains of the killer from the charred house site what does he wonder about?
5. When Dolarhyde takes Reba to his home what is the film that they watch before they make love?
6. What does Dolarhyde tell Reba about the Leeds family and the Jacobi family?
7. What strikes Graham as odd about the killer showing up at the Brooklyn Museum?
8. What is Graham's response when the mockingbird whistles in Chapter 51?
9. What is Reba's reaction when Dolarhyde tells her that he would rather her die with him than to be left to the Dragon?
10. What does Reba tell Police when they show up at the scene of the house fire?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
After Dolarhyde eats the painting of the Dragon he tells himself that he can "choose anything now." Explain why this didn't free him as he believed it would. Could this act have freed him had later circumstances been different? Explain.
Essay Topic 2
Dr. Lecter never is shown revealing any emotion except in Graham's recalling. What does this reveal about Dr. Lecter? Does this make him more or less believable as a "bad guy" in the story? Explain.
Essay Topic 3
Dolarhyde's only word that he says while at the Graham's house is "Muhner" or Mother pronounced just as he had before his corrective surgery. Why was this his last word and what does it reveal about Dolarhyde? What effect did his death have on Molly? Did she blame Graham or simply associate him with the events? Explain.
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