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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 asks Dave and Cletus if they "salted the mine shaft"?

2. Who says, "Most people just roll over when violence comes into their lives"?

3. Rumor has it that who owns an aquarium filled with piranha?

4. In Chapter Three, for whom are the three men looking?

5. Segura is spotted in what color and brand of car in Chapter Four?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dave learn about Bobby Joe Starkweather from Wesley Potts?

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

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

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

5. Describe Sam Fitzpatrick as seen in Chapter Three?

6. Describe Cletus Purcel.

7. Describe Julio Segura in Chapter Two.

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

9. What clues make Dave suspicious of the Cataouatche Parish sheriff?

10. In Chapter Two, what is it about the dead girl that makes Dave suspicious?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the effect of Fitzpatrick's death on Dave. Does he feel responsible? Guilty? If so, is there anything he could have done to stop it?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the evidence that Dave finds at Starkweather's fish camp, and what he then suspects from that information. How does he come to his conclusions?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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