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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 Cliff Baxter do when Annie tries to protect Keith Landry?

2. What does Cliff Baxter do when he finds Keith and Annie?

3. What is Keith Landry afraid of in Chapter 22?

4. What does Keith Landry do when Cliff Baxter attacks him?

5. Where does Keith Landry take Annie?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Keith and Annie end up in a motel in Toledo?

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

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

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

6. What does Keith Landry do after getting Annie's note?

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

8. Describe Keith Landry and Annie's meeting in Chapter 20.

9. What plan do Keith Landry and Annie make?

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

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

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 3

While Annie and Keith Landry dispose of Cliff Baxter in the end, they seem to have the entire community's support. Is their accomplishment ultimately an individual accomplishment, or did the entire community effectively bring about Cliff Baxter's downfall?

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