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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 beat Bonnie with?
(a) A torch.
(b) His fists.
(c) The Club.
(d) The butt of a gun.

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

3. How does Snapper and Edie get Levon out of the house?
(a) With a gun in his side.
(b) They carry his dead body.
(c) Quietly out the back door.
(d) Rolled up in drapes.

4. What does Avila admit to Ira about his inspections at the trailer park?
(a) That the straps were not made to withstand Florida sunshine.
(b) That he knew the augers were rotten but said nothing.
(c) That he never went to the park.
(d) That he went but never looked at anything.

5. Who comes to Augustine's and visits with Max after Max's return from Guadalajara?
(a) Jim Tile.
(b) Augustine's ex-girlfriend.
(c) Augustine.
(d) An FBI agent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Max want to see happen to Skink?

3. Who does Edie mistake Levon for in Chapter 19?

4. What does Fred do with the two dachshunds?

5. Surprisingly, what is Keith Higstrom not good at doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Skink get in the car with Snapper and take Bonnie along with him?

2. How is Skink's reign of horror finally ended?

3. How is Dennis Reedy naive?

4. 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?

5. How does Avila's sacrificing backfire?

6. Why does Bonnie continue to stay in Florida with Augustine and Skink?

7. How does Avila come to believe even more deeply in the Chango?

8. How has Max decided to reclaim his wife?

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

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

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