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

2. How many corpses does Bonnie have to look at in the morgue?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

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

4. How does Augustine make his money?
(a) He owns a zoo.
(b) He sells imported animals.
(c) He works on a boat.
(d) Through an insurance claim.

5. What does Skink smoke?
(a) Snake.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Toad.
(d) Cigars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose body is in the morgue?

2. Why does Bonnie wake up screaming?

3. What does Bonnie learn from the little boy with the bike?

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

5. What does the man with the two dachshunds throw at Tony?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What surprising news does Bonnie hear from Pete and how does it change the dynamic of her marriage?

3. Why and how does Bonnie question her choice of a husband?

4. How do Bonnie's responses to Augustine show that she has feelings for her husband and an understanding of who he is?

5. How is the relationship between Augustine and Bonnie progressing after Max has been gone for a couple of days?

6. What does Jim Tile reveal that adds to the dimension of Skink's character?

7. Though the reader never really meets Avila, much can be said about his character through indirect characterization. What type of character is he?

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

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

10. What does the reader learn of Augustine's background that leads to him being a more dynamic character?

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