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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 is Amy carrying with her?

2. Where does Lou get the bottle of whiskey from?

3. Who do Amy and Lou watch working out?

4. What does Lou give Hendricks a recipe to cure?

5. What kind of world does Lou say doctors live in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lou say he does with Amy in the two weeks before he kills her?

2. Why does Hendricks phone Lou in Chapter 12?

3. How did the man from the union find it was Johnnie who stole his tires?

4. What does Lou see in the picture he finds in his dad's library?

5. What does Lou say he knows about John Smith?

6. What does Lou know about Billy Bob Walker?

7. What information does Rothman give about Johnnie?

8. What does Hendricks say is the evidence against Johnnie?

9. How do Hendricks and his secretary react when Lou starts speaking in cliches?

10. What deal do the bum and Lou come to?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Lou assess his own sickness while in hospital? What evidence is there to suggest this not a reliable assessment? In what way does Lou trust his intelligence too much?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

How difficult has it been for Lou to curb his natural intelligence? How much of this repression is responsible for what happens?

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