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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 Lily's relationship with Claude?

2. What does Lily reserve Wednesdays for in her job?

3. What is the man wearing that comes to the house with Howell?

4. What has Claude very curious about the murder scene?

5. Why is Lily angry when she goes to bed after her date with Claude in Montrose?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where do Claude and Lily go after her karate class, and what does Claude tell Lily?

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

4. Describe The Fight in detail.

5. Where is Claude when Lily arrives home from work at the end of her day, and what do they discover together?

6. What is Bobo's connection to the town of Shakespeare?

7. Where and when throughout Chapter Two does Lily see the guy who was with Darcy in the gym right after Del's murder?

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

9. How and by whom is Del's body discovered?

10. Who is the narrator of the story, and what type of person is she?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What emotional and physical scars does Lily carry with her? How do these scars affect the way in which she becomes involved in the racism infecting Shakespeare? How do her goals for herself match her goals for Shakespeare?

Essay Topic 3

In a persuasive piece, argue how the police force let down the town of Shakespeare. What could and should they have done to make Shakespeare a safer place for everyone?

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