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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. Where does Harry look when he returns to his search for Porter in Chapter 12?
2. Harry notified Moore's wife--Sylvia--of the death. She calls later to thank him. What does Harry conclude at the end of that call?
3. Where does Harry find Porter?
4. In Chapter 10, Bosch makes a mysterious phone call and reveals what he just learned about the autopsy results. Who is it most likely that he calls?
5. What does Harry realize that he has lost after attempting to interrogate Kerwin in Chapter 15?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Harry begin to think that Moore was a bad cop?
2. What does the teenager finally tell Harry about Dance and what does it make Harry decide?
3. Why does Harry's possible identification of the Juan Doe in Chapter 13 confirm that the three cases might be related?
4. What is the evidence that Teresa uncovered having to do with brain tissue and what does it mean?
5. What is Rickard doing when he calls Harry in Chapter 11?
6. Why does Harry think that solving homicide cases are the only cases that matter?
7. In Chapters 9 and 10, what is bothering Teresa?
8. What does Harry's boss tell him at the beginning of Chapter 5, and what is Harry's response?
9. What does Harry learn from the crime scene technician in Chapter 8?
10. Give at least two reasons that foreshadow the fact that Harry will go to Mexico.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Many of the best and most successful mysteries are structured through withholding information. Whether it is a first person narrator who is unreliable, or characters who lie to each other or the reader, this kind of information mediation is a key technique of fiction writing. Construct a thesis that responds to Connelly's use of this technique and the way he withholds information from the reader or from his characters and write an argumentative essay.
Essay Topic 2
The protagonist and author of this book are male, and there are many men and women readers both who are fans of this genre. Write an essay that 1) identifies and defines the masculine images in this book, 2) critiques them by determining how they are structured by the novelist, and 3) determines the extent to which this image affects the commercial success or critical reception of this book.
Essay Topic 3
Write an analytical essay that defines the way you understand the terms "fictional double" or "Doppelganger" as ways of reading a novel. In addition, offer specific examples from this text to which these terms are relevant. Questions to consider are: Does this text have a literal double or a figurative one (or both)? What does each "twin" figure represent? What roles does this doubling play in the text?
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