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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 Snapper do with Brenda's mother's ring?
(a) He gives it to Edie.
(b) He pawns it.
(c) He tosses it out the Jeep window.
(d) He swallows it.

2. How does Ira get Avila to take a ride with him?
(a) Ira tells Avila about a place where sacrificing is done.
(b) Ira has Avila's wife tell him to go.
(c) Ira offers him fifteen thousand dollars plus for a new roof.
(d) Ira threatens Avila's family.

3. Why doesn't Jim take Edie to jail?
(a) Augustine asks him not to.
(b) He can't prove that she has broken the law.
(c) Skink asks him not to.
(d) He wants to find proof at Tony's first.

4. What does Augustine find out about the vehicle that the stolen plate was on?
(a) The vehicle has been in an accident.
(b) The plate is on a different car.
(c) It is now being driven by a white man.
(d) The hoodlums are still driving it around.

5. What does Skink bring Augustine and Bonnie for breakfast?
(a) Fish.
(b) MacDonalds.
(c) Squirrel and rabbit.
(d) Roadkill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Neria wish for Celeste's life?

2. Who steals the license plate from the family's Camaro?

3. Who calls Tony's house in Chapter 15?

4. What happens to Skink after he hands Max over to Augustine?

5. How does Avila find Snapper in Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has happened in New York concerning Max's career that enables the reader to see the strong side of Max?

2. How has Max decided to reclaim his wife?

3. How does Avila show himself to be the coward that he is, and how does it lead him to his downfall?

4. How do Skink, Augustine and Carl Hiaasen view the president's visit to Miami?

5. How does Bonnie react to Max now that he has been found?

6. What does Max learn about the legal system in Miami?

7. What emotions do Augustine and Bonnie feel after their night together? Why do they feel the way they do for each emotion?

8. What can one imagine is on the piece of paper that Jim leaves with Skink? What does Jim expect that Skink will do with what is on the paper?

9. Once again, how does Avila seem to be the "saved one" after he goes to Paradise Palms to confront Snapper in Chapter 26?

10. How does Avila's sacrificing backfire?

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