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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 we find Keith Landry after the night Cliff Baxter finds him and Annie?

2. What does Keith Landry do during the week after his meeting with Annie?

3. Where does Keith Landry use a disguise?

4. Why did Annie leave her sister's house?

5. How does Keith Landry ultimately get back home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the fight between Annie and Cliff Baxter in Chapter 19.

2. What is Keith Landry's response to Charlie Adair's and the President's offer?

3. What does Gail Porter tell Keith has happened since the meeting she organized?

4. What does Keith Landry do while he is waiting for the time of his rendezvous with Annie?

5. Describe Annie's visit to Keith Landry's house.

6. How does Cliff Baxter come to find Keith and Annie in Toledo?

7. What information does Keith Landry get about Annie's whereabouts?

8. What warning do Keith and Annie get from Annie's brother-in-law, and how do Keith and Annie respond to it?

9. Why won't Charlie Adair allow Keith Landry to refuse the job on the spot?

10. What does Annie's note to Keith Landry say?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the relationship between Cliff Baxter and his wife show us about Annie's personality? How do you account for the violence of Annie's relationship with Cliff Baxter? What led her from Keith Landry to Cliff Baxter--or, how did she permit the transformation that turned Cliff Baxter from someone she could respect into someone who terrorized her?

Essay Topic 2

Is Spencerville a romance novel or an action novel? Describe how the novel balances or fails to balance the love theme and the rivalry between Keith Landry and Cliff Baxter.

Essay Topic 3

Why doesn't Keith Landry urge Annie to remain married, and to work within the bond she had accepted, honoring the vows she once took? Put another way, what makes Annie's marriage to Cliff Baxter so contemptible that we wish, as readers, for it to end? Would there be a virtue to Annie remaining married?

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