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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 Snapper do to Edie in the driveway?
2. How does Tony prove Edie is not paralyzed?
3. How much money does Tony offer Edie and Snapper?
4. After talking to Peter in Chapter 6, where does Bonnie ask Augustine to take her?
5. What strange items are people using as weapons as Jim discovered?
Short Essay Questions
1. How has Skink become even more frightening as a character in Chapter 9?
2. 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?
3. How does Jim Tile come to bring the news to Bonnie that Skink has abducted Max?
4. How is the character of Avila brought further to light by showing his bad character traits?
5. How do Bonnie's responses to Augustine show that she has feelings for her husband and an understanding of who he is?
6. Why and how does Bonnie question her choice of a husband?
7. How does the structure of Chapter 1 differ from a standard novel?
8. In what way have common household items become weapons of violence?
9. 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?
10. Bonnie wonders at the end of the Chapter 11 if Max is different now. How is he different?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What has happened in Florida before the hurricane that sets up for disaster once the hurricane comes? Who has control over what gets built and where? How can future disasters like the ones mankind caused be avoided?
Essay Topic 2
How is Max typical of a city dweller business executive? How is he not? How does his attitude affect the decisions that he makes? How do his decisions affect the lives of others?
Essay Topic 3
How does Carl Hiaasen show the darker side of individuals after a natural disaster and why does he do that?
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