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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tony Torres do for a living?
(a) He is a police officer.
(b) He is an insurance salesman.
(c) He sells manufactured homes.
(d) He is an insurance claims representative.

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

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

4. What does Bonnie learn from the little boy with the bike?
(a) Max is still videotaping.
(b) Max is hurt by a falling board.
(c) Max is chasing a monkey.
(d) Max walks away with the one-eyed man.

5. 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 coaxed her to move to Florida.
(c) He didn't blame himself--only Tony.
(d) He did not rescue her from the storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Augustine's uncle?

2. What does Tony make Snapper and Edie explain to him once he brings them in the house?

3. How does Max and Bonnie originally meet?

4. How does Tony prove Edie is not paralyzed?

5. How does Augustine make his money?

Short Essay Questions

1. Though shown as a kidnapper and torturer, Skink appears to be an ethical man. How so?

2. How is Max possibly misreading Skink?

3. In what way is Edie shown as a round character?

4. How does Jim Tile come to bring the news to Bonnie that Skink has abducted Max?

5. Even though the author introduces new characters, he continues to tie in the ones that the reader has already met. How are the characters intertwining in Chapter 3?

6. How is Edie a resourceful woman?

7. What conversation do Bonnie and Augustine share that makes it seem as though the two are becoming close?

8. Why does Ira Jackson feel so badly about himself?

9. How does the structure of Chapter 1 differ from a standard novel?

10. How has Skink become even more frightening as a character in Chapter 9?

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