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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. Why does Stephanie go to the hospital?

2. What does the person who commit suicide confess to first?

3. What does one woman remember upon seeing Fred's picture?

4. What nationality is the boy who Stephanie is chauffeuring?

5. Why is Stephanie's uncle missing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Larry Lipinski commit suicide and is the suicide perhaps suspicious?

2. Why is Stehanie's income uncertain and she must be good at what she does?

3. What is ironic about Fred taking his garbage bags out behind the butcher's?

4. What happens when Stephanie and Ranger go running in the morning and why do you think it happens?

5. Why do you think Grandma Mazur wants Stephanie to find Fred?

6. What is the reason Morelli says he wishes Stephanie would not work for Ranger any more and could there be any other reason?

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

8. Why is Fred in a dispute with the garbage company and does it seem like something an average person would bother with?

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

10. What happens when Stephanie and Lula attempt to bring in Briggs again and what might this suggest about Stephanie's ultimate success as a bounty hunter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Family is an important theme in High Five. Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze Stephanie's relationship to her family.

2. Compare Stephanie's relationship to her family to the relationships your own family.

3. Discuss the attitudes towards family by five characters in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the following:

1. How does the plot structure contribute to the success of the story? (Or Not)

2. Discuss the five times Evanovich uses foreshadowing and how it is fulfilled later in the story.

3. Discuss the use of slang/dialect and lingo in the story and how it does (or does not) make a more interesting read.

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