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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 Sughrue do at his acreage in Montana?

2. What help does Stacy want from Sughrue after she wakes in the middle of the night?

3. How faithful was Trahearne during his and Catherine's marriage?

4. What does Sughrue do for Stacy after she wakes during the night after the events at Hyland's home?

5. What do Stacy and Sughrue spend a couple days doing after the ordeal at Hyland's home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would Melinda's past life affected her present day life?

2. Has Trahearne been fair to Sughrue, in his use of Sughrue's investigative skills?

3. Why would Torres still demand the forty thousand dollars from Melinda?

4. How do Sughrue and Traherne get along in Montana?

5. What does it say about Stacy that she invites Sughrue to her bed after hearing his conversation with Melinda?

6. Why would Sughrue make a superficial joke about Catherine''s age?

7. Why does Trahearne start drinking again?

8. Why would Betty Sue need convincing to contact Rosie?

9. How is Catherine's sexual relationship with Sughrue manipulative?

10. Why would Selma have lied to Sughrue about Betty Sue's death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Trahearne has previous and successful writing and writing that he is wanting to complete. These two types of writing are very different. What does Trahearne's writing symbolize at different stages in his life?

Essay Topic 2

Has Sughrue changed as the novel ends? Look at his actions at the very beginning of the novel and at the end that both take place at Rosie's.

Essay Topic 3

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

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