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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 the owner of the commune reveal about Betty Sue?

2. What did Betty Sue want to do when she called Jimmy?

3. What is Albert Griffith's occupation?

4. Trahearne's ex-wife tells Sughrue to look where for him?

5. What is Rosie willing to pay Sughrue for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is foreshadowed by Trahearne's eagerness to travel with Sughrue in the search for Betty Sue?

2. What events does the use of alcohol foreshadow as the book opens?

3. How does Trahearne react to the porn Professor Richter shows him and Sughrue?

4. What prompts Sughrue to say he will "rise and do what [he] knew he had to do, to what [he] owed the women"?

5. How does Betty Sue have the power to make Sughrue fall under her spell when they have never met?

6. Are Sughrue's descriptions of Albert Griffith accurate? Why or why not?

7. What does Charles Gleeson's relationship with Betty Sue symbolize?

8. Sughrue and the nurse connect quickly. What side of his personality does this event reveal?

9. Sughrue is uncomfortable about Catherine and Trahearne's mother living together. Why?

10. What does Sughrue's interactions with Jackson show about his investigative skills?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Map Trahearne's injuries and hospitalizations. What did each hospitalization symbolize?

Essay Topic 2

How does Melinda's desire to live her own life contribute to her death?

Essay Topic 3

What does the novel's title mean? Which characters does it reference? Why?

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