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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 is the DEA agent--Corvo--reluctant to talk to Harry in Chapter 17?
2. What is it that Harry finds suspicious about the EnviroBreed office when he sees it?
3. In Chapter 22, Harry asks why Agulia bothered to send a message to the US Consul notifying them that Guitierrez-Llosa was missing. What does Agulia say?
4. Harry starts to put the pieces together in Chapter 31. He thinks Cal Moore killed Zorrillo and set it up so that it would look like he was killed. What proof does he offer Teresa that this is true?
5. In Chapter 25, where does Harry ask Aguila to take him to see Zorrillo?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was Cal Moore still going to get a hero's funeral?
2. As Harry is driving back into L.A., he sees a hill scorched by fire. Despite the destruction, why is he not worried?
3. Why did many day laborers at the circle refuse to work at EnviroBreed?
4. What is the atmosphere of the bar like when Harry meets DEA agent Corvo in Chapter 17?
5. How did Aguila decide to report the missing person who ended up Juan Doe, when Mexico does not even have a missing persons bureau?
6. What is Corvo's most notable facial feature?
7. What was the terrible thing that Cecil did to Moore as a boy?
8. How did Moore switch his own fingerprints?
9. What does the EnviroBreed building look like?
10. What does Moore look like, when Harry finds him standing in the mirror?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sometimes a particular object or character can function as both a symbol and a setting. Using explicit examples from one or both of these settings, describe how Los Angeles functions as a setting on several levels. Questions to consider are: what characterizes the description of Los Angeles in this text stylistically? What connections or associations do readers bring about Los Angeles that enhance this narrative? What role does it play thematically or in terms of genre?
Essay Topic 2
Every novel takes place somewhere, and the strongest novels have settings that thematically resonate with the other fictional elements, including plot, character, language, etc. Choose at least one of the settings (geographical, physical, chronological, etc.) and write an analysis that 1) examines the setting in terms of both form and 2) in content, and 3) determines how the setting in question affected other fictional elements.
Essay Topic 3
How does Harry Bosch solve this mystery? Write an essay that describes the key clues to this mystery and how Harry puts them all together. Please offer at least one example from the beginning or middle of the book, although it is appropriate to focus on the last parts of the book.
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