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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Dick's plans to get more money to continue finishing his boat?
(a) Borrow money from Joxer.
(b) Sell his house.
(c) Get a bank loan.
(d) Go on another swordfish trip.

2. What does Dick drop off his sons, Charlie and Tom, to do?
(a) Study at the library.
(b) Go to basketball practice.
(c) Go to a movie.
(d) Dig for clams.

3. What is Elsie Buttrick's job?
(a) Fish and game warden.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Nurse.
(d) Physician.

4. Where does Dick hide his skiff when it is spotted?
(a) The dock at the Neptune.
(b) In the spartina.
(c) Joxer's dock.
(d) At a roadside rest.

5. Why is Dick upset with his sons after they return from fishing on his birthday?
(a) They broke a window playing catch.
(b) They show Dick's boat to Elsie.
(c) They wrecked the car.
(d) They didn't do the yardwork.

Short Answer Questions

1. What function will Elsie serve for Schuyler's movie?

2. What has Dick left unattended lately?

3. What does May encourage Charlie to do on the trip?

4. Where did Dick and his friend, Larry Parker, once take a fifty-five foot boat?

5. What does Joxer Goode want to hire Dick to provide?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the parallel that emerges between Dick and his deceased father.

2. How does Elsie indicate that she is more interested in Dick and a relationship than he is regarding his not contacting her when he is out to sea longer than expected?

3. How can Elsie be noted as the heroine of Chapter 10 and who would be the antithesis of that?

4. How does Dick feel about the fantasies that Elsie finds erotic?

5. Compare and contrast Dick and Elsie's positions regarding legal activities.

6. What is revealed about Dick's leadership skills on the documentary trip?

7. Who is Miss Perry and what is her relationship to Dick and his family?

8. How does Dick know that Elsie had been in the patrol boat the night before when he and Parker were trying to complete the drug deal?

9. What advice does May give Dick before leaving on the swordfish trip which will be filmed for Schuyler's documentary?

10. How does the author use irony in the scenario on the dock with the cops and the drug-sniffing dog?

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