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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 are Max and Bonnie in Orlando?
(a) To set up a scam.
(b) To visit friends.
(c) For their honeymoon.
(d) To celebrate their graduation.

2. Why has the one-eyed man kidnapped Max?
(a) He wants Max's camera.
(b) He wants Max's money.
(c) Max was throwing trash in the water.
(d) Max was mistreating the monkey.

3. Why is Jim Tile glad to be in South Florida?
(a) He wants to be able to see Brenda, his girlfriend.
(b) He wants to find his friend, Skink.
(c) He is curious about hurricanes.
(d) It makes him feel warm-hearted to help others.

4. Why does Ira blame himself for his mother's death?
(a) He believed Tony when he said the trailer would hold up under a hurricane.
(b) He did not rescue her from the storm.
(c) He coaxed her to move to Florida.
(d) He didn't blame himself--only Tony.

5. Why have Edie and Snapper chosen a house in a neighborhood that the hurricane hit?
(a) To rescue animals.
(b) To seek out victims.
(c) To make a fraudulent insurance claim.
(d) To steal whatever they can find.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Augustine come into all of his money?

2. What does Tony propose as a new deal for Snapper?

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

4. Why are Jack and Drake stuck on US 1?

5. Why does Bonnie stop looking for Max?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Bonnie wonders at the end of the Chapter 11 if Max is different now. How is he different?

3. What does the reader learn of Augustine's background that leads to him being a more dynamic character?

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

5. What surprising news does Bonnie hear from Pete and how does it change the dynamic of her marriage?

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

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

8. Why does Ira Jackson feel so badly about himself?

9. How does Edie and Snapper's plan surprise the reader now that it is revealed in their conversation with Tony in Chapter 4?

10. How does the weather create conflict in Chapter 1?

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