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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. How does the author, Nicholas Pileggi, meet Henry?

2. Where do most of the airport hijackings occur?

3. Where does Tommy kill Billy Batts?

4. What do Henry and Tuddy do when another group builds a cabstand around the corner?

5. What is the family name of Henry's bosses?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how the wiseguys rob trucks.

2. Why does Jimmy buy cigarettes outside of New York?

3. What has Henry begun doing that causes a lot of friction between Karen and her parents?

4. Describe why the author, Nicholas Pileggi, decides to write the book from Henry Hill's perspective.

5. How does the book describe how the mafia rose in the Brownsville-East New York area?

6. Why do Henry and his friends go to Las Vegas just after the Air Cargo Center robbery?

7. Describe what Tommy and Jimmy do with Billy Batts' after Tommy shoots him in The Suite.

8. Why does Henry see Paulie as "invulnerable"?

9. Why does Karen like Henry so much?

10. Why do Henry's parents disapprove of their son's new job at the cabstand?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Jimmy's paranoia of the Lufthansa robbery foreshadow the events that later transpired? Is the author giving the reader clues that everything the wiseguys thought about life would soon change or is he simply trying to portray Jimmy's personality?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 11, Henry's relationship with his wife Karen and girlfriend Linda are examined. In what ways does the description of his being in these two relationships in tandem speak of his naivete? Why does he believe that he can have both women without repercussions?

Essay Topic 3

In what ways does the author use Henry's perspective to his advantage when describing the Air Cargo Center robbery? Why do you think the author chose to use Henry's point of view to tell this story? What details would have been left out had the author told the story from someone else's perspective?

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