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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tony propose as a new deal for Snapper?
(a) Snapper will be Tony's bodyguard.
(b) Tony will shoot Snapper.
(c) Snapper will shoot Edie.
(d) Snapper will kill Tony's wife.

2. What does Snapper do to the female police officer who pulled him over?
(a) He tries to seduce her.
(b) He knocks her out.
(c) He speeds away from her.
(d) He shoots her.

3. What do the kids want who drive up behind Snapper and follow him for a bit?
(a) They want to see if he has a gun.
(b) They want directions.
(c) They want to beat him.
(d) They want to rob him.

4. What happens to the rope on the bridge at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) It still holds the one-eyed man.
(b) It has snapped in the storm.
(c) It has fallen into the water.
(d) It has been cut.

5. How does Snapper feel when he sees that Tony is gone and the damage the cinder block did?
(a) He is mad at himself for ruining the money scheme.
(b) He is worried that Tony might be dead.
(c) He is glad to be rid of Tony.
(d) He feels that he is a poor bodyguard.

6. Why is the trooper sent to Miami?
(a) To find hurricane victims.
(b) To help clear traffic for the rescue convoys.
(c) To patrol neighborhoods for looters.
(d) To rescue animals.

7. What strange items are people using as weapons as Jim discovered?
(a) Tree branches.
(b) Chain saws and power tools.
(c) Bricks.
(d) Knives.

8. Why is Jim Tile glad to be in South Florida?
(a) He wants to find his friend, Skink.
(b) He wants to be able to see Brenda, his girlfriend.
(c) He is curious about hurricanes.
(d) It makes him feel warm-hearted to help others.

9. Why is Gil Peck in Florida?
(a) He wants to scam for money and goods.
(b) He is an insurance man.
(c) He is part of FEMA.
(d) He is a friend of Snapper's.

10. What surprising fact does the reader learn about Skink from Jim?
(a) He used to own an alligator business.
(b) He used to be the governor.
(c) He used to be a professional wrestler.
(d) He used to be a mercenary.

11. What is the setting of the first chapter?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Florida.
(c) Lousiana.
(d) Georgia.

12. What does Skink make Max do to support the products he advertises?
(a) He makes Max drink lots of beer.
(b) He makes Max smoke many cigarettes.
(c) He makes him eat a carton of eggs.
(d) He makes Max eat tons of cereal.

13. What does Augustine do to the drunk construction worker?
(a) Augustine shoots him.
(b) Augustine hits his car.
(c) Augustine shoots him with a tranquilizer dart.
(d) Augustine punches him.

14. Why is Edie annoyed with the insurance man when he returns the next night in Chapter 11?
(a) He answers the door when someone knocks.
(b) He is acting as though they have a romance going on.
(c) He drinks all of the wine.
(d) He won't get her a hotel room.

15. Why does the patrol officers go to the Card Sound Bridge?
(a) Five people have called in a jumper.
(b) The bridge has collapsed.
(c) A rope is hanging from it.
(d) Cars are stuck on it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gil Peck find attached to the satellite dish?

2. How does Edie's scam get noticed by the insurance man?

3. What does Bonnie think after Max goes into a family's home to take pictures of the devastation?

4. To whose attention is Max Lamb's case finally drawn?

5. Why are Jack and Drake stuck on US 1?

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