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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. Where does Stephanie meet up with Tank?

2. Who does Stephanie visit again?

3. What does Stephanie learn when she calls the police about her uncle?

4. What does Stephanie do at the mall?

5. What does the note to Stephanie say?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bunchy both help and hinder Stephanie in chapter 7?

2. Who does Stephanie encounter at the funeral home and why is her response a little hypocritical?

3. Describe and briefly analyze Stephanie's experience chauffeuring the Arab teen.

4. What are the photos Mabel show Stephanie and what do you think it might foreshadow?

5. What possible scenario does Stephanie come up with pertaining to her uncle's disappearance?

6. What is on Lula's car when Stephanie and Lula return to it from shopping and what is Stephanie's reaction?

7. What was Fred doing on the day he goes missing?

8. What two clues does Stephanie learn as she studies the photos from Fred's desk and what may one or both foreshadow?

9. What does Stephanie buy at the mall and do you think it is appropriate for the purpose for which she buys it?

10. What does Stephanie learn about Fred and how was one of these facts already hinted at in chapter one?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Stephanie seems to get herself in and out of difficult and even dangerous situations with very little long-term consequences. Discuss the following:

1. What is a narrative contrivance?

2. Briefly summarize and analyze two situations in High Five where it seems that the only way Stephanie gets out of them is through narrative contrivance.

3. Would you rather there be and improbable event to save one of your characters or would you want the author to be more realistic? Discuss why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

This novel belongs to the general literary category of fiction and the genre of detective fiction, although it has characteristics of other genres also. Discuss the following:

1. Define the term genre.

2. Why do you think books are categorized by genre? What are the advantages? The disadvantages?

3. Discuss in what ways you think High Five belongs to the detective fiction genre.

4. To what other genres could this book possibly belong?

Essay Topic 3

In any detective novel, there are clues that point both to the real criminal(s) versus those that are designed to mislead the readers in order to add suspense. Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze five clues that are designed to let the astute reader figure out who is the criminal(s).

2. Trace and analyze five clues that are designed to mislead even the astute reader in figuring out who is the criminal(s).

3. Do you enjoy being mislead in a mystery/suspense novel? Why or why not.

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