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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Jim know that Skink has Max?
2. What does Gil Peck find attached to the satellite dish?
3. Why does Max chase a monkey?
4. Why does the patrol officers go to the Card Sound Bridge?
5. How does Augustine make his money?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How does Jim Tile come to bring the news to Bonnie that Skink has abducted Max?
3. What kind of a character is Augustine? Please support your answer with evidence from the book.
4. How does the structure of Chapter 1 differ from a standard novel?
5. How has Skink become even more frightening as a character in Chapter 9?
6. 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?
7. What does Jim Tile reveal that adds to the dimension of Skink's character?
8. In what way have common household items become weapons of violence?
9. What does the reader learn of Augustine's background that leads to him being a more dynamic character?
10. How does Snapper become the criminal that he is?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is Max typical of a city dweller business executive? How is he not? How does his attitude affect the decisions that he makes? How do his decisions affect the lives of others?
Essay Topic 2
What has happened in Florida before the hurricane that sets up for disaster once the hurricane comes? Who has control over what gets built and where? How can future disasters like the ones mankind caused be avoided?
Essay Topic 3
Is the epilogue necessary? Does the reader find satisfaction from having the epilogue or would the reader be better off with his own imagination?
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