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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 Wiley write in an article that Miami needs more of?

2. Which of the following characters is Wiley's boss?

3. What do Wiley and his associates want Keyes to do?

4. What is Jenna dressed up as?

5. Why was Keyes called into the newspaper office by Cab Mulchay?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plot do Keyes and Mulcahy discuss and what does this discussion help them to figure out?

2. How does Ernesto feel about America and what does he explain to Keyes about his arrest?

3. What items did the police find in room 223 at the Flamingo Isles Motel?

4. What does Bernal secretly hope will happen after he blows up several people and some greyhounds at the track with his bombs?

5. What does Skip Wiley do to his psychiatrist and what does the doctor do once returned?

6. What happens while Groppo is golfing with his colleagues at the Palmetto Country Club?

7. What conclusions do Keyes and Garcia reach about the letters?

8. What does Wiley tell Keyes that the group he is affiliated with plans to do and how they plan to do it?

9. What does the story on the front page by Ricky Bloodworth say that is inappropriate for a newspaper to print?

10. What does Nell do when her husband doesn't return and what happens?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what way is this novel symbolic of actual events which have happened over the last thirty years? In what ways is it a misrepresentation?

Essay Topic 2

Describe how the author uses irony to develop the action and plot of this novel. Do you believe the author overuses or underuses irony within the text? Why do you feel this way?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the concept of terrorism developed throughout this novel? In what ways are these terrorists different from the majority of terrorists reported about in the media? In what ways are they the same?

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