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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 the detective ask of Lily when he sees her in the hall of the hospital?

2. Cleve was once arrested for ______________.

3. What odd question does Becca ask Lily about Marie?

4. What change did NOT occur at the Pardon's Apartments according to Carrie?

5. Why does Karen Kingsland die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lily handle the men who come to her door looking for Jack?

2. How does the intimacy between Lily and Jack affect her at the end of Chapter Six?

3. What thoughts go through Lily's mind as she is cleaning Deedra's apartment in Chapter Seven?

4. Where does Lily run into the man with the ponytail throughout Chapter Four?

5. Who is Jared Fletcher and what is his tie to Lily?

6. What information does Jack share with Lily about why he is in Shakespeare?

7. Who did both Jack and Lily recognize as the group of men that shot and chased Jack?

8. What does Lily do to help Jack while he is in her home?

9. What realizations does Lily come to while cleaning Mookie Preston's house?

10. Why does Arnita Winthrop summon Lily to her home, and what transpires there?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are the characteristics of Claude and Carrie contradictory to the effect that they have on the incidents that occur in Shakespeare?

Essay Topic 2

In a serious piece of literature, violence is not used simply for violence sake. What violence does Harris give to the reader, and what are her motives for using this violence?

Essay Topic 3

How is Shakespeare typical of small town America. Make a comparison analyzing the way that people guide themselves morally, how they act in times of trouble, how they stand up for their own townspeople.

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