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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What organization was Snapper's parents involved in when he was young?
(a) The Peace Corps.
(b) Greenpeace.
(c) The Black Panthers
(d) The Ku Klux Klan.

2. Towards the end of Chapter 7, Skink gives Max a long shock. What makes him so angry at Max?
(a) Max does not know the answers to questions about Florida.
(b) Max tries to hit Skink.
(c) Max tries to escape.
(d) Max cries about his lack of clothing.

3. How does Augustine come into all of his money?
(a) From his father's drug deals.
(b) A lawsuit from a plane accident.
(c) A lawsuit from a boating accident.
(d) He robbed a bank.

4. Where does Max call when Skink gives him the cell phone to call Bonnie?
(a) He calls the highway patrol.
(b) He calls his parents.
(c) He calls Bonnie's cell phone.
(d) He calls their apartment in New York.

5. How does Jim know that Skink has Max?
(a) He recognizes his voice on the tape.
(b) Bonnie gets a phone call from Max.
(c) Jim sees them together.
(d) He gets a phone call from Skink.

6. How does Tony prove Edie is not paralyzed?
(a) He drops a branch on her leg.
(b) He calls the police.
(c) He pushes her arm with the shotgun.
(d) He shines a flashlight in her face.

7. What is Max going to do with the videotapes?
(a) Make a movie.
(b) Sell them to C-Span.
(c) Sell them to the highest bidder.
(d) Make a scrapbook.

8. What is the old man in search of at Beatrice Jackson's home?
(a) Beatrice's dogs.
(b) Ira Jackson.
(c) Beatrice's urn.
(d) His wife's blue urn.

9. Why are Max and Bonnie in Orlando?
(a) To set up a scam.
(b) To celebrate their graduation.
(c) For their honeymoon.
(d) To visit friends.

10. Why is Max at the bottom of the list of missing persons?
(a) He is not known to be hurt.
(b) Wayward tourists are not a priority.
(c) He is not a victim of the hurricane.
(d) Videotapers are not a priority.

11. How does Ira Jackson get Avila's address from the clerk?
(a) The clerk gave it to him.
(b) He grabbed it from the clerk's hand.
(c) He threatened to hurt the clerk's family.
(d) He took it when the clerk left his desk.

12. To whose attention is Max Lamb's case finally drawn?
(a) Jim Tile.
(b) News reporters.
(c) Max's parents.
(d) The FBI.

13. What happens to Augustine's uncle?
(a) He dies of a snake bite.
(b) He dies of a fight with a bear.
(c) He dies in the hurricane.
(d) He leaves his home before the storm.

14. Why does Ira blame himself for his mother's death?
(a) He believed Tony when he said the trailer would hold up under a hurricane.
(b) He did not rescue her from the storm.
(c) He didn't blame himself--only Tony.
(d) He coaxed her to move to Florida.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Snapper do to Edie in the driveway?

2. What does the old man neighbor of Mrs. Jackson want to do to Tony?

3. Where does Edie say she is going to go with her seventy grand?

4. What is Max's tone in Chapter 7 when he calls and leaves a message for the second time?

5. Why does Edie call Tony "a regular Nostrodamus"?

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