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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 Skink finally do with the scorpion?

2. What does Augustine find out about the vehicle that the stolen plate was on?

3. What does Snapper do to Edie and Fred in Chapter 14 after he returns to Tony's?

4. How does Edie open a bank account in Neria's name?

5. When Neria calls Tony's neighbor, Mr. Varga, where does he suggest that Tony may be?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Edie and Max wind up together?

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

3. How is Dennis Reedy naive?

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 has Max decided to reclaim his wife?

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

8. How does Avila's sacrificing backfire?

9. 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?

10. How might Neria have been a good match for Tony?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Is the epilogue necessary? Does the reader find satisfaction from having the epilogue or would the reader be better off with his own imagination?

Essay Topic 3

How does Carl Hiaasen show the darker side of individuals after a natural disaster and why does he do that?

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