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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. How many businessmen own the Heavenly Hash Houses?

2. In what kind of travel container do Koko and Yum Yum reside?

3. By what are Qwill's hunches preceded?

4. What is the ceramic bug that Qwill finds?

5. What does Rosemary bring for the cats?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Qwill describe Joy's husband?

2. What is strange about the design of the Maus Haus?

3. What is unique about the people who reside in Maus Haus?

4. What does Miss Roop say in regards to Joy's work? How does this contradict what has previously been told to Qwill by Dan?

5. What has attracted so much attention from the two cats in their new home?

6. What leads to Qwill's purchase in the pet food store? How do the cats react to this?

7. Why does Qwilleran continue to cringe inwardly?

8. What does Riker not know and cannot believe?

9. What new job does the managing editor assign Qwilleran?

10. Who else hears the scream, and why do they hear it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss art as a way of life. How is it often an unrealistic pursuit to be an artist? When does art actually pay, and what follows international acclaim?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the artists' lack of desire to talk about what had happened when Penniman owned the pottery. Why would it be a sore spot for them to go over it again and again?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss The Cat Who Saw Red as a detective novel. What conventions from the detective genre and film noir tradition does Braun incorporate into her work and in what ways does she subvert them?

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