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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. Who is the most dangerous man Cole knows?

2. Why does Cole lose his license?

3. What does Evelyn offer to get Cole when he visits Paulette Renfro for the first time?

4. What does Krantz find in Sobek's fridge?

5. Who does Pike meet while he is out late at night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Dolan and Cole discover when they go to the storage facility?

2. Why does Cole go to see Mike McConnell?

3. Why does Cole go to Palm Springs in Chapter 29?

4. Where does Cole think Sobek is going when the police barge into Sobek's house trying to arrest him?

5. What does Cole's lawyer recommend he do?

6. How does Laurence Sobek die?

7. Why does Pike go to Paulette's house?

8. What happens to Dolan at Laurence Sobek's house?

9. What does Dolan want "a piece" of in Chapter 34, and why?

10. How does Cole react to his surprise visitor when he returns home in Chapter 30?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Joe Pike works with two partners in the story. First, he works with the older cop, Abel Wozniak. Later, Pike teams up with Elvis Cole to create a private investigator agency. How are these two partnerships similar? How are they different? What does the reader learn about the characters through these partnerships? How does each partnership contribute to the plot's development? Use specific examples from the text in the response.

Essay Topic 2

The reader does not learn a great deal about Pike's emotions and personal relationships with women. In the story, Pike has intimate relationships with two women--Paulette Wozniak and Karen Garcia. Describe these two relationships. How are they similar? How are they different? How do these relationships show another side of Pike the reader has not seen previously? Use specific examples from the text in the response.

Essay Topic 3

L.A. Requiem is classified as a crime thriller. The book has also been described as a mystery novel and a serial-killer novel. Which of these classifications is the most appropriate for the story? Why? What other descriptions could be appropriate for the book? Use specific examples from the story to explain and justify the response.

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