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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 Clinton Tyree feed Angie in Chapter Twenty-two?

2. What does Angie find out Tyree did for her that made a huge financial difference for her some years earlier?

3. Why does one co-worker risk his life to get the one unsullied box of food from the truck in Chapter Eighteen for Mastodon?

4. What does Ryskamp tell Mockingbird he will get for her?

5. What does Angie find when she goes back to Tyree's base camp in the swamp the day after her first visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Uric Burns feel after killing Prince Paladin?

2. What plan does Mocking bird hatch so that Agent Josephson can stay on her detail?

3. What does Skink do to Angie when she comes to visit him that terribly upsets her?

4. How does Uric die?

5. Who is trying the hardest to get Diego Beltran freed and why is this person acting this way?

6. Why does Ryskamp break things off with Angie?

7. What happens to Joel when he comes on one of Angie's work calls in Part III with her?

8. Why do the Potussies get Secret Service protection in Part III?

9. What begins to chip away at Diego's morale the most when he is in jail?

10. Who does Angie think ambushed her on one of her jobs in Part III, destroying her truck?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What traits of the extremely wealthy socialite set in Florida does Hiaasen use the Cornbright brothers, Chance and Chase, to highlight throughout the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What does Tyree's surprise revelation at the very end of the novel - that the first huge Burmese python that appeared and ate Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons was not one that he had intentionally released there - reveal about wildlife, the natural environment, and, ultimately, Angie's own perceptions of his tactics? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How do several female characters - for instance, Fay Alex Riptoad, Angie Armstrong, and Mockingbird - pressure other female characters at different points in the novel, in both subtle and overt ways, to ruthlessly achieve their own goals? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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