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

2. What does Skink give as the reason that he abducted Max?
(a) Skink had no particular reason for choosing Max.
(b) Skink saw Max abuse the little boy with the bike.
(c) Max made a "splendid target" as a tourist with a video camera.
(d) Max was physically small.

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

4. How does Max and Bonnie originally meet?
(a) At Disney.
(b) In Greenwich Village.
(c) On a boat.
(d) Through their careers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Skink respond when Max asks him if he is ever letting Max go?

2. Why does Bonnie's mother dislike Max?

3. What is Snapper's part in the roof scam with Avila?

4. Who is the man who shows up at Tony's with the two dachshunds?

5. What is the tie between the three sets of characters met in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do the characters introduced in Chapter 1 differ from each other?

4. Bonnie wonders at the end of the Chapter 11 if Max is different now. How is he different?

5. 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?

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

7. 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?

8. What insight does Augustine have concerning Skink that Max does not?

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

10. 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?

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