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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 is the setting of the first chapter?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Florida.
(c) Lousiana.
(d) Georgia.
2. What does Skink make Max do to support the products he advertises?
(a) He makes Max smoke many cigarettes.
(b) He makes Max drink lots of beer.
(c) He makes him eat a carton of eggs.
(d) He makes Max eat tons of cereal.
3. What do Edie and Snapper bring with them to Tony's house?
(a) Food and drink.
(b) A generator.
(c) A gun.
(d) Blankets.
4. With what does Augustine juggle?
(a) Knives.
(b) Lit torches.
(c) Eggs.
(d) Human skulls.
5. What does Gil Peck find attached to the satellite dish?
(a) A woman with a Cartier watch.
(b) Max's body.
(c) Tony's body.
(d) Two dachshunds.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Bonnie view the kidnapper?
2. Why is Gil Peck in Florida?
3. Why is Edie annoyed with the insurance man when he returns the next night in Chapter 11?
4. What is the tie between the three sets of characters met in Chapter 1?
5. Why does Bonnie's mother dislike Max?
Short Essay Questions
1. What misconceptions is Max beginning to believe about Skink in Chapter 6?
2. How do Bonnie's responses to Augustine show that she has feelings for her husband and an understanding of who he is?
3. How does Jim Tile come to bring the news to Bonnie that Skink has abducted Max?
4. Though Ira Jackson has every right to be angry over the death of his mother, he is no saint himself and perhaps should not be judging Tony so harshly. What indicators has the author given the reader to show that Jackson is not an upstanding character?
5. How is the author being satirical in the characterization of Tony Torres?
6. How is Edie a resourceful woman?
7. How does the way in which Tony treats Edie in Chapter 6 make the ending of the chapter more satisfactory to the reader?
8. How is Max possibly misreading Skink?
9. How does Snapper become the criminal that he is?
10. Though Ira Jackson has every right to want justice for his mother's death, his sense of justice is twisted. Why is Ira's idea of justice wrong and how is his execution of it immoral?
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