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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 does Jimmy think about instead of his father?

2. How does Jimmy know what Crab is feeling?

3. What does Jimmy find when he returns the call that came when he was gone?

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

5. What does Crab want Jimmy to inquire about when he sends him back inside?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where do Crab and Jimmy stay in Chicago?

3. What response does Rydell make?

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

5. What does the conjure man tell Crab?

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

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

8. What had Crab's plan for the night been?

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

10. What does Jimmy do when Crab is distracted?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

At the end of the novel, Jimmy asks Crab what the goal of going to California would be. How important are goals in "Somewhere in the Darkness"? Does a plan need to have a goal for it to be important? Which characters have different beliefs about this question?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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