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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 does Lou want to compliment the newspapers on?

2. What did Lou's father do for a living?

3. What does Amy say will wake Lou up?

4. What did Lou and Mike use to make a swimming pool?

5. How is Mike Dean related to Lou?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mike die?

2. How does Lou implicate Chester as the murderer?

3. Why does Hendricks claim he is questioning Lou in Chapter 8?

4. How does Lou know that Mike is not guilty of raping the three-year-old girl?

5. Why does Lou use so many adages?

6. What does Lou do to his car before he goes to murder Joyce?

7. Why does Lou tell Amy he is not so keen on marrying her just yet?

8. Why is Lou uncomfortable with Bob and Hendricks?

9. Why does Lou say he agrees to marry Amy?

10. Why is Bob so upset when he arrives back at the hotel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the other characters manage to catch out Lou? What leads to Lou's downfall? Is there a suggestion Lou wants to be caught?

Essay Topic 2

Why did Mike take the blame for raping the three-year-old girl? How much does Lou feel responsible for Mike's death?

Essay Topic 3

Aside from the main character, examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

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