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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 does Dave have sent to Annie at lunch in Chapter Ten?

2. Who says, "I worry about stuff all the time I don't have control over"?

3. What did Dave's father give him when he went away to college?

4. Where does Didi Gee talks about moving?

5. Who describes killing as "There's no rush in the world like it"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Annie do and feel when she wakes up to find Dave has gone following their first night together?

2. As Dave sits in jail without enough money for bail, he thinks it is perhaps the lowest morning of his life with the exception of what incident?

3. What was Dave's father's feelings about guns?

4. Why is Didi Gee upset in Chapter Ten?

5. In Chapter Eleven, Dave tells Annie that he has to hurt her. How does he hurt her?

6. What does Dave tell Captain Guidry about Cletus in Chapter Eleven?

7. Dave confronts Philip Murphy and plans to take him back to New Orleans. What is the outcome of this?

8. What happens to Andres after Dave leaves him in police custody?

9. Why does Dave return to the Picayune's morgue in Chapter Twelve?

10. In Chapter Twelve, Dave says that he is caught in the lens. What does he mean by this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Compare the challenges Dave faces with sobriety with those challenges he faces with alcoholism.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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