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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 Stephanie say about being in her old room?

2. What is wrong with Lula's outfit?

3. Why does Ranger tell Stephanie she can do in order to help him?

4. What does Lula says she will teach Stephanie's grandmother?

5. What does Stephanie's grandmother do at Carmen's viewing that causes a scene?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Morelli say to Stephanie and Ranger when he sees them in the park in Chapter 12?

2. What do they find in Chapter 22 when Stephanie and Morelli go out to where the motor home is located where Julie had been kept?

3. What does Stephanie decide to do while her and Lula are heading to pick up a fugitive?

4. What does Scrog have Stephanie do to loose the people that are following her?

5. What does Stephanie's mother tell her in chapter thirteen about Carmen's viewing?

6. What happens in the end of Chapter 21 when Scrog tells Stephanie to put her head between her legs so she can't see where they are going?

7. What happens when Scrog approaches Stephanie at the funeral parlor?

8. Describe the scene in chapter twenty-one when Scrog brings Stephanie and Julie breakfast?

9. What happens in chapter eleven when Stephanie and Lula go into the Pleasure Treasure store the second time?

10. Describe the phone call in Chapter 18 where Stephanie talks to Julie.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Morelli knew Stephanie was with Ranger and yet Morelli did not go and arrest him. Why was Morelli willing to overlook this fact? What does this say about Morelli as a person as compared to Morelli as a cop?

Essay Topic 2

Stephanie says that Julie is a lot like her dad, Ranger, in many ways.

Part 1) Is it possible that Julie got her grit from her mother or from being raised by her step-father?

Part 2) Does nature or nurture play more of a role in a child's rearing? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 3

How important is it for a book to seem realistic?

Part 1) In what ways was the story realistic? In what ways was it not?

Part 2) What could the author have done differently to make it seem more realistic?

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