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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 did the killer break throughout the house?

2. What does Francis' grandmother threaten to do when she hears that Francis was naked with a neighbor girl?

3. When the police have the call from the Pilgrim traced, who do they find making the call?

4. What is Lecter told to sign his letter to the "Tooth Fairy" with?

5. What reason does Graham give Lounds for the extra violence inflicted on the women in the families?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Dr. Lecter's response when Dr. Chilton arrives and takes away Lecter's books as punishment for helping the killer?

2. Describe the conversation Wendy and Graham have at Lounds' gravesite?

3. What is determined in regards to the new leads left by the killer from Lounds' murder?

4. After Lounds is taken captive by Dolarhyde what is Dolarhyde's response to Lounds' phrase "man to man"?

5. What is Marian Dolarhyde's response when she sees her son after he is born?

6. Describe Dr. Lecter's response to Dolarhyde that the police find in Chapter 14 and why they decide to run it rather than stop it.

7. Why does Graham go back to the Leeds' house again in Chapter 5?

8. What are some of the reasons that Graham initially doesn't want to go help Crawford with the murder investigation?

9. Describe the response that Dolarhyde's stepbrothers and sisters have when he arrives.

10. What is odd about Dolarhyde's speech when he talks to Eileen in Chapter 9?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Graham mean when he says that "we make murder, and it matters only to us."? Is this correct? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Dolarhyde's mother is shown having four meetings with him; When he is born, when his grandmother takes him to see her, when his grandmother takes ill and at his grandmother's funeral. In what ways does their meeting change each time? Why was the last meeting so different?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Dolarhyde become desperate to destroy the Dragon even though it is the Dragon that Dolarhyde believes he gets his power from? Why was Dolarhyde unable to break loose of the Dragon's grasp?

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