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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. When was the last time that the spotter and Del had spoken before the spotter joins him the evening Del dies?

2. What does the spotter wonder as he drives home from the gym?

3. What is Tom David's role at The Fight according to him?

4. Which of the choices listed, is NOT how Lily described Del to Claude?

5. How did Del fare at the competition the year before?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Lily's thoughts concerning the death of Del from the moment she finds him? How do her thoughts change as the chapter progresses?

2. What does Del say about Lily Bard and the competition?

3. How does Del feel about this year's competition?

4. What does Deedra ask Lily to do? Why does Lily refuse?

5. Who is Darcy Orchard and how does he treat Lily?

6. As the novel opens, what is Del doing and where is he?

7. What is the relationship between Claude and Lily?

8. What does the spotter do to Del?

9. Why are the three murders that have taken place recently in Shakespeare suspicious to Lily?

10. What discoveries does the reader make about Lily in the opening of Chapter Two days after she had turned Claude down.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Jack's character affect the town of Shakespeare's residents? Does the town benefit from his being there, or does he make matters worse?

Essay Topic 2

Jerrell Knopp is yelling at Deedra when the reader first meets him. Though he is not a character that Lily likes, he is not all wrong in his thinking. Analyze Jerrell by explaining what he is setting out to accomplish, how he is going to meet his goal, and how he is both wrong and right in his thinking.

Essay Topic 3

The Fight is very telling about the characters of Shakespeare and how they handle each other and problematic situations. Analyze how the participants of The Fight handled the situation and what that says about them morally.

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