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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 do Mockingbird and Agent Josephson do in Chapter Six?

2. What bites Angie in Part I?

3. What is the name of Angie Armstrong's company?

4. What does Angie call her ex-husband's new partner in Chapter Seven?

5. Who kills Prince Paladin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Mastodon immediately start calling for Diego's blood as a murder suspect?

3. Where does Angie see the Burmese python she killed at Lipid House again in Part II?

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

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

6. Why does Agent Ahmet Youssef use a different name on the job at the Secret Service?

7. How do Kiki's sons react to the idea of giving a reward for information leading to the location of Kiki's body?

8. Why do the two thieves, Uric and The Prince, steal the python from Angie's storage unit?

9. Who discovers evidence that could free Diego and what is that evidence?

10. Why does Uric kill Prince Paladin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which characters exhibit the most respect for the natural environment and for wildlife in the novel? Which characters seem to have utter disregard for these things? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How do several female characters - for instance, Fay Alex Riptoad, Angie Armstrong, and Mockingbird - pressure other female characters at different points in the novel, in both subtle and overt ways, to ruthlessly achieve their own goals? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

What do Angie and Clinton Tyree have in common? In what important ways are they different? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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