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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 Stef rely on Sarah for?

2. How does Stef spend his Saturday after Barnwell's death?

3. What does Sarah talk Stef into doing when she arrives to watch another set of the tapes with him?

4. Why does Bear go to Stef's apartment?

5. How much time has passed since Stef and his wife were shot?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Stef feel while he is racing?

2. What information does Bear learn about the man who shoots him?

3. Who reassures Parker that they are doing the right thing?

4. What happens seconds before the gunman opens fire?

5. What happens before the police can approach the target house?

6. How does Stef react and handle his restriction to the wheelchair?

7. Where does Stef find Bear and how does he react to finding him?

8. How does Sarah feel about the success of her book?

9. How does Bear feel about Central Park?

10. How does Sarah feel when she puts her son on the airplane to visit his father?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you think it is right to seek vengeance through violent means when someone has gotten away with a crime? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

What parallel relationships can be found throughout the novel? Provide specific examples. In what way do these relationships change throughout the novel? Do they change for the positive or negative? Why?

Essay Topic 3

In the novel, Parker's life was changed by the death of his brother. In what way(s) did he change? How do life altering events like this change people? Do they always lead to negative changes or are there sometimes positive changes?

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