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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 Jimmy ask Crab about?

2. What does Crab receive from the person they encounter next?

3. Who does Jimmy think about while he is alone?

4. What does the person they encounter next do to Crab?

5. Who are Crab and Jimmy waiting for in the morning?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Crab tell Jimmy about the diner where they stop?

3. What does the conjure man tell Crab?

4. Describe Crab's interaction with Frank.

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

6. What response does Rydell make?

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

8. Why does Crab tell Jimmy to go to the room and stay there alone all night?

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

10. What makes Crab nervous about leaving the diner?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

What kind of morality or values does Jimmy learn from his experience with his father? Does he learn to respect the law? Does he learn not to? What law does he learn to respect? How does he learn this? How does it change or define the beliefs he had in the beginning?

Essay Topic 3

How would you characterize the author's writing style? How is language itself a character in the story? Is it supposed to be transparent, or does the author draw attention to his use of language?

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