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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 are the pro-capital punishment people singing in Chapter One?

2. What Treasury Agent visits Dave at his houseboat?

3. What drug do Murphy's men use to knock Dave out?

4. Fitzpatrick is in charge of monitoring what?

5. Whom does Didi Gee describe as having "a memory like flypaper"?

Short Essay Questions

1. When and how does the reader first find out about Dave's time in Vietnam?

2. Discuss Cletus' marital problems.

3. What does Dave learn about his partner from Julio Segura?

4. Where is Dave stationed?

5. Describe Johnny Messina in Chapter One.

6. What happens to Dave after he has been given the cocktail?

7. What does Dave learn in Chapter Five that is related to the execution of Johnny Messina.

8. What jobs did the Robicheaux brothers have in their youth?

9. What does Dave do to convince Annie Ballard that he is a New Orleans's cop?

10. What happens when Dave is fishing on Bayou Lafourche in Cataouatche Parish?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the incident in Chapter 10 in which Dave concludes that the evil of the Nazis "was held in check by the family who sacrificed their lives so their youngest member could live." What relevance does this tale have to the book?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 11, Captain Guidry mentions "hubris" as "that word they use when they're talking about characters in Shakespeare's plays." Hubris is similar to pride. Research and write about the origin of "hubris." Is the term the same as or slightly different from pride? Why does the author choose to mention this in this book? How does it apply?

Essay Topic 3

Write about the theme of good versus evil citing examples from this book.

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