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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. Where do Crab and Jimmy arrive?

2. What do Crab and Jimmy do after Jimmy asks his question?

3. How does Frank pay for the rental?

4. What is odd about Frank's arranging the rental?

5. What does this person tell Crab?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Crab and Jimmy go after they secure a place to stay?

2. What makes Crab nervous about leaving the diner?

3. Where do Crab and Jimmy stop in Chicago?

4. Why does Crab tell Jimmy to go to the room and stay there alone all night?

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

6. What happens to Crab and Jimmy on their way out of Chicago?

7. What does Crab ask Jimmy to say when he calls Rydell?

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

9. What does Crab do when Jimmy gets back with the aspirin he asked him to get?

10. What does Crab tell Jimmy about his own father?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways is Mama Jean a better parent than Crab? In what ways is she not? What does Crab teach Jimmy that Mama Jean could not, and vice versa?

Essay Topic 2

How would you characterize the author's writing style? How is language itself a character in the story? Is it supposed to be transparent, or does the author draw attention to his use of language?

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate your own reading of 'Somewhere in the Darkness'--did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

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