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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 Pruitt tell Angie he is going to do to her in Chapter Eight?

2. What significant information about the investigation surrounding Kiki Pew does Crosby give Mrs. Riptoad in Chapter Eight?

3. What do Mockingbird and Agent Josephson do in Chapter Six?

4. Who harrasses Angie every night on the phone?

5. When does Angie realize the lump in the python's stomach was a person?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of ball did Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons disappear at?

2. How does Fay Alex Riptoad treat Police Chief Jerry Crosby?

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

4. Why does Uric kill Prince Paladin?

5. What do the Secret Service agents seem to think about Mastodon in general?

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

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

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

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

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

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

What does Tyree's surprise revelation at the very end of the novel - that the first huge Burmese python that appeared and ate Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons was not one that he had intentionally released there - reveal about wildlife, the natural environment, and, ultimately, Angie's own perceptions of his tactics? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Mastodon decide to exploit the public's - and his own supporters' - deep fears of and biases towards undocumented immigrants and other foreigners throughout this novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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