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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. Who harrasses Angie every night on the phone?

2. What color are many conch pearls?

3. Who first discerns what happened to the person who disappears at the charity event in Chapter One?

4. Who is the pawnbroker in Chapter Six?

5. What does Uric write on his arm in Chapter Eight?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Angie visit Germaine Bracco in Part II?

2. What happens to Angie that unsettles her soon after her job at Lipid House?

3. Why does Diego Beltran become a suspect in Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons's murder?

4. What does Angela Armstrong threaten to do when a man says he cannot immediately pay her for her removal of a raccoon?

5. What was the general attitude among partygoers when they realized Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons was missing?

6. Who is the closest person to Angie and what is the nature of their relationship?

7. Why does Pruitt call to harass Angie every night?

8. What does the Russian stripper at the strip club ask Angie to give her in return for information about Uric?

9. Why does Uric kill Prince Paladin?

10. What happened to Angie's only marriage, to Dustin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the specific details Hiaasen includes to signal to the reader how repulsive, morally repugnant, and shallow Mastodon is throughout the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What do you think Hiaasen is communicating to the reader with the fact that Teabull orchestrates all manner of criminal activity for the shallowest of reasons, and he ultimately gets away with it? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What does Angie's extreme reaction to Pruitt's poaching, which takes place years before the start of the novel, reveal about her character? Why do you think Hiaasen includes this story as part of Angie's background? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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