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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. How many men jump Dave on his houseboat in Chapter Five?

2. What is Dave first answer when Annie asks him what is wrong in Chapter Six?

3. How many Southern Myths does Dave come up with in Chapter Three?

4. In Chapter Seven, whom does Dave call to harass from the bar?

5. Fitzpatrick is in charge of monitoring what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Dave sometimes thinks of whom as his "father's misplaced seed"?

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

3. What does Didi Gee suggest the dead girl was doing before being killed?

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

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

6. Why is Dave suspicious of the Cataouatche Parish deputies who pull him over?

7. Why is Fitzpatrick angry with Dave in Chapter Five?

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

9. About what does Dave bait Murphy in the beginning of Chapter Seven that elicits a reaction from Murphy?

10. What concoction does Bobby Joe feed to Dave in Chapter Seven, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 4, Fitzpatrick points out immigrants from Central America, both legal and illegal. Compare and contrast the attitudes or feelings about immigration from these four characters: Fitzpatrick, Didi Gee, Cletus, and Dave.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Dave's relationship with his father and his current feelings about the man. What impact does Dave's father have on him?

Essay Topic 3

"The Neon Rain" begins when Dave Robicheaux visits Angola penitentiary. The person he visits is hours away from execution, and there are groups both for and against his execution at the gate. Discuss what feelings or opinions Dave has about the death penalty in general and the man who is being executed.

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