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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 do Crab and Jimmy talk to during this stop?

2. Where do Crab and Jimmy go when they arrive?

3. How does Jimmy know what Crab is feeling?

4. What do Crab and Jimmy do after taking evasive action?

5. Where do Crab and Jimmy go after this visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Crab ask Jimmy to say when he calls Rydell?

2. What does Jimmy think about when he tries to think about Crab as a child?

3. What is Crab's reaction when Jimmy tells him that he called Mama Jean?

4. Where does Jimmy go to collect Crab, and how do they pass the night?

5. What does Crab tell Jimmy about his own father?

6. How does Jimmy find out that Crab is sick?

7. What does Crab do when Jimmy gets back with the aspirin he asked him to get?

8. Where is Jimmy when he wakes up after some driving?

9. What had Crab's plan for the night been?

10. Where do Crab and Jimmy stay in Chicago?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the difference between North and South in "Somewhere in the Darkness"? How does that difference reflect the difference between Crab and Jimmy?

Essay Topic 2

In what ways is Mama Jean a better parent than Crab? In what ways is she not? What does Crab teach Jimmy that Mama Jean could not, and vice versa?

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate your own reading of 'Somewhere in the Darkness'--did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

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