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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 the man with the two dachshunds throw at Tony?
(a) A dachshund.
(b) A piece of a trailer.
(c) A Remington.
(d) A cinder block.

2. How much money does Tony offer Edie and Snapper?
(a) $1,000 each.
(b) Nothing.
(c) $5,000 each.
(d) $10,000 each.

3. When Max asks Skink in Chapter 6 what will happen to him next, what does Skink respond?
(a) Skink will take Max back to the rental car.
(b) Max will fly back to New York.
(c) They will hunt for monkeys.
(d) The two of them will travel together.

4. How does Bonnie view the kidnapper?
(a) As a psychopath.
(b) As someone she must figure out.
(c) As a killer.
(d) As a man who will demand ransom.

5. What does the man with the dachshunds tell Edie to do?
(a) Describe her relationship with Tony.
(b) Follow him to Tony.
(c) Go now.
(d) Distract Tony.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the boy doing when Max videotapes him?

2. What does the old man neighbor of Mrs. Jackson want to do to Tony?

3. Why does Bonnie wake up screaming?

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

5. Why does Ira blame himself for his mother's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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 is Edie a resourceful woman?

4. How does Snapper become the criminal that he is?

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

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

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

8. How does Chapter 8 show that what "goes around, comes around" in the case of Gil Peck?

9. In what way is it correct that Jim Tile worries about Skink?

10. 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?

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