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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 color are many conch pearls?

2. Why does Angie go to Germaine Bracco's house?

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

4. Where do Angie and Spalding go together in Chapter Ten?

5. How does the dead python end up in the road?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Mr. Teabull desperately need Angie to do a job for him in Part I?

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

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

6. Why does Uric kill Prince Paladin?

7. What is the relationship between the First Lady and the President like?

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

9. What kind of political opinions did Kiki's last husband Mott Fitzsimmons hold?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the relentless crowd of demonstrators outside the detention facility where Diego Beltran is being held symbolize? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How do different characters react to the development of the Potussies each having a Secret Service agent assigned to them for their "protection?" Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What aspects of human nature do the criminals Prince Paladin and Uric Burns symbolize? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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