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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. In Chapter 25, where does Harry ask Aguila to take him to see Zorrillo?
2. What is it that Harry finds suspicious about the EnviroBreed office when he sees it?
3. Harry starts to put the pieces together in Chapter 31. He thinks Cal Moore killed Zorrillo and set it up so that it would look like he was killed. What proof does he offer Teresa that this is true?
4. What kind of unique door handle does Code 7 have?
5. Harry does not want anyone to know he came to Calexico. How does he hide this?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Harry find out when he calls Hollywood, to the police, from Calexico?
2. What does Harry tell the man at the historical society and what is Harry really doing there?
3. How did the town of Calexico get its start?
4. How did Moore switch his own fingerprints?
5. As Harry is driving back into L.A., he sees a hill scorched by fire. Despite the destruction, why is he not worried?
6. Why, when people are killed accidentally at EnviroBreed, does Harry suspect they are shipped across the border illegally?
7. What is Corvo's most notable facial feature?
8. Why was Cal Moore still going to get a hero's funeral?
9. Describe what it is like when Harry drives back across the border.
10. Whom does Harry Bosch identify in the old photographs and how?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an analytical essay that defines the way you understand the terms "fictional double" or "Doppelganger" as ways of reading a novel. In addition, offer specific examples from this text to which these terms are relevant. Questions to consider are: Does this text have a literal double or a figurative one (or both)? What does each "twin" figure represent? What roles does this doubling play in the text?
Essay Topic 2
How does Harry Bosch solve this mystery? Write an essay that describes the key clues to this mystery and how Harry puts them all together. Please offer at least one example from the beginning or middle of the book, although it is appropriate to focus on the last parts of the book.
Essay Topic 3
Considering Anzaldua's way of reading the border and the theory of contact zones, write an essay that explains these two terms. Drawing on the roles--as setting, as symbol, as plot device, as mood--the borderline plays in this novel, offer a detailed, text-based analysis of this way of reading. You should pick at least 5 fictional elements to describe, using textual examples.
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