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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 Franks' profession?

2. Why does Frank threaten to beat Crab up?

3. Where do Crab and Jimmy enter as they cross a bridge?

4. Who are Crab and Jimmy waiting for in the morning?

5. What does he wonder about to this person?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Crab's reaction when Jimmy tells him that he called Mama Jean?

2. What does Jimmy think about when he thinks of Mama Jean?

3. Where does Jimmy go to collect Crab, and how do they pass the night?

4. Describe Crab's interaction with Frank.

5. How does Jimmy find out that Crab is sick?

6. What response does Rydell make?

7. What are Jimmy's thoughts on returning to the room alone?

8. Where is Jimmy when he wakes up after some driving?

9. What do Crab and Jimmy do in the morning?

10. What makes Crab nervous about leaving the diner?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the difference between North and South in "Somewhere in the Darkness"? How does that difference reflect the difference between Crab and Jimmy?

Essay Topic 2

What kind of morality or values does Jimmy learn from his experience with his father? Does he learn to respect the law? Does he learn not to? What law does he learn to respect? How does he learn this? How does it change or define the beliefs he had in the beginning?

Essay Topic 3

What makes Crab a father for Jimmy? That is, how does he play that role? What kind of father is Crab?

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