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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. Why does the patrol officers go to the Card Sound Bridge?

2. Why does Snapper want to siphon the gas from the car?

3. After talking to Peter in Chapter 6, where does Bonnie ask Augustine to take her?

4. What is Max's tone in Chapter 7 when he calls and leaves a message for the second time?

5. Why does Max chase a monkey?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Bonnie's responses to Augustine show that she has feelings for her husband and an understanding of who he is?

2. What insight does Augustine have concerning Skink that Max does not?

3. Though shown as a kidnapper and torturer, Skink appears to be an ethical man. How so?

4. 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?

5. How is Edie a resourceful woman?

6. Bonnie wonders at the end of the Chapter 11 if Max is different now. How is he different?

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

8. In what way is Edie shown as a round character?

9. How does Jim Tile come to bring the news to Bonnie that Skink has abducted Max?

10. Why does Ira Jackson feel so badly about himself?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of the title of the book to the plot that has nothing to do with the actual hurricane?

Essay Topic 2

What are the internal conflicts of Augustine, Snapper, Edie and Skink? Are they ever resolved?

Essay Topic 3

Is there a hero in the novel? An anti-hero? If there is a hero who is it and why? If not, how does the lack of a hero affect the novel? Does there need to be a hero in this novel? If there is an anti-hero -- who is it and why?

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