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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 was Newport Beach famous for?

2. How much was Holly's ransom?

3. What time was it when Mitch left the house?

4. How did Anson react to the news that he would be liquidated?

5. What is so much more comfortable, at the end of Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mitch ration about Holly's comment that she knows where he is?

2. Why did Daniel know that something was up? What did he suspect was happening?

3. How did the loft in the garage offer easy places for someone to hide?

4. How did Anson's revelation affect Mitch?

5. What did the amount of money that Anson had secured mean to him? Why would he give it up?

6. Why doesn't Anson live more in his means?

7. Why did the kidnappers want to involve Anson and not Iggy? What did the kidnappers say they would do to convince Anson to help Mitch?

8. What interested Lieutenant Taggart regarding Mitch's behavior?

9. What had caused Mitch to gag?

10. How did the stacks of boxes create a fortuitous event for Mitch?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the connections that the kidnappers made to Mitch throughout the novel. How do these connections influence Mitch's decisions? In what regard do they influence the story and how it progresses?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Holly's fears of being kissed or touched by Jimmy. Why did she fear the contact so much? How was it likely that she would react to such contact? What brought Holly through her fears?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Mitch and Iggy's views on marriage. Which character's view do you most identify with and why? Who makes the more convincing argument, and what specific points lend strength to it?

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