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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. What does Augustine do after he hears Max on the answering machine?
2. What is Edie's second plan?
3. Why does Snapper call Avila?
4. After talking to Peter in Chapter 6, where does Bonnie ask Augustine to take her?
5. In Chapter 8 what does Augustine tell Bonnie that the surgical intern he dated had tried to do to him?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why and how does Bonnie question her choice of a husband?
2. How has Skink become even more frightening as a character in Chapter 9?
3. Why does Ira Jackson feel so badly about himself?
4. What surprising news does Bonnie hear from Pete and how does it change the dynamic of her marriage?
5. 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?
6. How does Chapter 8 show that what "goes around, comes around" in the case of Gil Peck?
7. What does the reader learn of Augustine's background that leads to him being a more dynamic character?
8. How is the relationship between Augustine and Bonnie progressing after Max has been gone for a couple of days?
9. 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?
10. How does Edie and Snapper's plan surprise the reader now that it is revealed in their conversation with Tony in Chapter 4?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the background of the author come into play in his creation of this novel?
Essay Topic 2
What does Bonnie discover about herself after the hurricane and how does she resolve this issue by the end of the novel?
Essay Topic 3
How is Avila's need to hold sacrificial ceremonies black humor? Note specific places in the novel that show this humor. What is the author trying to tell the reader through these rituals?
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