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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 Bonnie do that makes Snapper want to kill her?

2. How does Avila get hurt in Chapter 18?

3. What does Snapper steal from Brenda?

4. What does Jim tell Brenda that he has done when she wakes up in Chapter 21?

5. Where does Augustine wind up at the end of Chapter 24?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does tension build in the ride in the Jeep on the way to The Keys?

2. Why don't Skink and Augustine storm Tony's house now that they have found it?

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

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

5. How does Bonnie react to Max now that he has been found?

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

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

8. Once again, how does Avila seem to be the "saved one" after he goes to Paradise Palms to confront Snapper in Chapter 26?

9. How do Edie and Max wind up together?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What does Carl Hiassen attempt to teach through his use of black humor? Is the lesson one that we should all listen to or does the black humor make it a farcical moral not worth listening to?

Essay Topic 3

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

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