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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the patrol officers go to the Card Sound Bridge?
(a) A rope is hanging from it.
(b) Cars are stuck on it.
(c) The bridge has collapsed.
(d) Five people have called in a jumper.

2. Why does Bonnie wake up screaming?
(a) She is worried for Max.
(b) She has found herself in Augustine's bed.
(c) She sees the human skull display.
(d) There is a monkey in the room with her.

3. What happens to Bonnie's purse?
(a) Looters rip it from her hands.
(b) It is stolen from the trunk of the car.
(c) Augustine locks it in his truck.
(d) The monkey runs off with it.

4. What does Snapper walk away with after meeting Mrs. Whitmark?
(a) A roofing contract.
(b) $7,000 cash.
(c) Dog bites.
(d) Nothing.

5. Why is the one-eyed man angry with Jack and Webo?
(a) They have stopped their car on the highway.
(b) They threw beer cans out the window of the car.
(c) They have thrown cans into the water.
(d) They ran over a squirrel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Brenda and Jim meet?

2. What does Skink do every time Max asks him if Skink is going to shoot him?

3. Why doesn't Edie's plan concerning the Kennedys' work?

4. What does Snapper tell Edie to do with the dachshunds after they meet up again outside of Tony's in Chapter 7?

5. What happens to Augustine's uncle?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Bonnie's responses to Augustine show that she has feelings for her husband and an understanding of who he is?

2. Though shown as a kidnapper and torturer, Skink appears to be an ethical man. How so?

3. In what way is Edie shown as a round character?

4. In what way have common household items become weapons of violence?

5. Though Ira Jackson has every right to be angry over the death of his mother, he is no saint himself and perhaps should not be judging Tony so harshly. What indicators has the author given the reader to show that Jackson is not an upstanding character?

6. How is the relationship between Augustine and Bonnie progressing after Max has been gone for a couple of days?

7. How does the way in which Tony treats Edie in Chapter 6 make the ending of the chapter more satisfactory to the reader?

8. Why and how does Bonnie question her choice of a husband?

9. How does the political system ruin Clinton Tyree?

10. The plot thickens as the reader discovers the depth that Edie and Snapper will go to in order to make money. What is their plan and how do they execute it?

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