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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 tips Cliff Baxter off to ask at the motel where Keith and Annie are staying?

2. How does Cliff Baxter's meeting with Keith Landry end?

3. How does Keith Landry treat his relation with Annie in his discussion with Charlie Adair?

4. What does Keith Landry convince Annie to do?

5. Where do Keith Landry and Annie meet in Chapter 20?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after the scene in the motel?

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

3. Describe Keith Landry's interaction with Gail Porter before Charlie Adair shows up.

4. What is the job Keith Landry is being recruited for, and who does he meet with?

5. Describe Keith Landry's return to Ohio.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Keith Landry find when he arrives in Spencerville?

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

How realistic is Spencerville? Where does it hold to realistic narrative? Where is it unrealistic? How would reality be different from what is portrayed in the novel? What does the novel gain in the moments when it steps away from realism?

Essay Topic 3

Having just finished his work in the Cold War, Keith Landry returns home to find a new opposition with the brutal police chief. How much does this opposition prolong the Cold War Keith Landry had been part of fighting? Compare and contrast Cliff Baxter and the Soviet Union. Is Cliff Baxter a symbol of repressive regimes?

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