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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. Who does Colquitt first compare Kim to?

2. What place does Walter say their yard looks like on the morning of Pie's housewarming party?

3. What does Anita tell Colquitt she is planning when Colquitt and Walter return from the cabin in Chapter 12?

4. Where are Buck and Anita Sheehan originally from?

5. Whose appearance at Colquitt's dinner party upsets Anita?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is unusual about the behavior of Razz and Foster when the Harralson house begins going up?

2. After attending Eloise Jennings' Christmas party, what does Claire speculate has irritated Eloise?

3. What is unusual about Lucas' relationship with the Harralsons?

4. How does Pie react to her parents' arrival at the party?

5. When Colquitt calls Anita to invite her for a dinner party, what reason does Anita give for taking so long to answer the phone, and what does Colquitt think is the real reason?

6. Why is Colquitt surprised to hear that a house is being built on the McIntyre lot?

7. Why did Colquitt decide to leave the public relations company she worked at to do freelance public relations?

8. Why are Walter and Colquitt uncomfortable with the way Pie talks about Buddy's co-workers at the firm?

9. Why is Kim upset while he's at the Harralson's party?

10. Why does Colquitt say she and Walter aren't the type of people who would normally appear in People magazine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do Walter and Colquitt choose not to share the incident involving Kim and Colquitt's kiss with anyone? What consequence does this decision have? Does it make their case for the existence of evil in the house weaker? If so, how?

Essay Topic 2

How does Claire serve to reveal aspects of Colquitt's personality? What values of Colquitt's does she demonstrate?

Essay Topic 3

What does the term "climax" mean? What is the climax of this novel? What characteristics of a climax does the event have?

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