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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 Max run from Clyde's hospital room?

2. Why does Max doubt that Bonnie is cheating on him?

3. Why doesn't Neria find out that Tony is dead when she calls the police?

4. What is the first thing Skink asks Snapper once he is in the Jeep?

5. Besides Augustine, who arrives at the motel Paradise Palms before Snapper?

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

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

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

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

6. How does Avila's sacrificing backfire?

7. How has Max decided to reclaim his wife?

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

10. Skink is an astute man. What has he figured out about Bonnie's feelings that she may not quite know yet or perhaps not acknowledge yet?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What are the external conflicts of Edie, Fred, Jim and Bonnie? Are these conflicts resolved?

Essay Topic 3

What does Bonnie discover about herself after the hurricane and how does she resolve this issue by the end of the novel?

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