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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 spend the night?

2. What does he wonder about to this person?

3. What does Jimmy find when he returns?

4. How does Crab characterize his father?

5. What does Crab tell Jimmy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where do Crab and Jimmy stop in Chicago?

4. What does Crab tell Jimmy about the diner where they stop?

5. What makes Crab nervous about leaving the diner?

6. What does the conjure man tell Crab?

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

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

9. Where do Crab and Jimmy stay in Chicago?

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

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

Use the book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

Essay Topic 3

How surprising is "Somewhere in the Darkness"? What did you expect from the opening chapters, and where did the book diverge from your expectation? How did the book set you up to believe one thing, and then give you another? Where was the suspense generated?

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