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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 do Grace and Andi worry about and test?

2. What does Lucas do as his supplemental job?

3. Why are the police unable to trace any of the calls from the kidnapper?

4. What do the police find in the oil barrel?

5. What information do they learn from the attempt to locate Andi using the cell phone signal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lucas learn about Andi's father?

2. What kind of person is Lucas and what is his current status in regards to a love life?

3. What does Lucas learn when he talks to the girl who was the second witness to the kidnapping?

4. What does the anonymous person tell Mail about the police?

5. What makes Andi believe that Mail is not listening to her and Grace?

6. How does Lucas hear the message from Andi?

7. How does Andi respond when she realizes who the man is who kidnapped her?

8. What does the family notice about Andi in her message and what does Lucas learn from her message?

9. Why do both cops and criminals notice Lucas more than other police officers?

10. What do Andi and Grace hope to be able to do in regard to Mail?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the novel, it appears that the character of Mail is very intelligent. Provide at least five examples demonstrating this intelligence. In what way do you think his intelligence impeded him?

Essay Topic 2

Write a detailed account of the evidence against Helen as if you were the prosecutor. Do you believe she would have been found guilty without the confession? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

How is greed a theme of this novel? Which characters demonstrate greed? Why do you characterize them as being greedy?

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