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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. At the beginning of Chapter 6, what does Skink allow Max to do that he has not allowed before?
(a) Take off the shock collar.
(b) Go home.
(c) Ask three questions.
(d) Eat.

2. When Augustine visits his father in jail, what does his father want Augustine to do for him?
(a) Finish a drug deal for him.
(b) Help him escape.
(c) Take a message to Augustine's mother.
(d) Find him a good lawyer.

3. What does Augustine do after he hears Max on the answering machine?
(a) He tells Bonnie that Max has made the whole thing up.
(b) He tells Bonnie to forget Max.
(c) He calls the FBI.
(d) He calls the police.

4. How does Skink respond when Max asks him if he is ever letting Max go?
(a) Skink wants to meet Bonnie.
(b) Skink won't ever let him go.
(c) Skink plans on killing him.
(d) Skink will let him go when he understands a lesson.

5. Why is the one-eyed man angry with Jack and Webo?
(a) They ran over a squirrel.
(b) They have stopped their car on the highway.
(c) They have thrown cans into the water.
(d) They threw beer cans out the window of the car.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Edie and Snapper wait out the storm?

2. What does Snapper do to the female police officer who pulled him over?

3. After talking to Peter in Chapter 6, where does Bonnie ask Augustine to take her?

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

5. Why does Max chase a monkey?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What misconceptions is Max beginning to believe about Skink in Chapter 6?

4. How does the way in which Tony treats Edie in Chapter 6 make the ending of the chapter more satisfactory to the reader?

5. How is the character of Avila brought further to light by showing his bad character traits?

6. In what way have common household items become weapons of violence?

7. How does the weather create conflict in Chapter 1?

8. How does the political system ruin Clinton Tyree?

9. The plot thickens as the reader discovers the depth that Edie and Snapper will go to in order to make money. What is their plan and how do they execute it?

10. How is Max possibly misreading Skink?

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