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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. Who does Lang find in his apartment in Chapter 3 when he returns from his lunch with Paulie?

2. What does O'Neil tell Lang that he could have him charged with?

3. What does the main character sit down with after he gets home?

4. What name does Lang give the receptionist at the American Embassy when he goes to see Russell Barnes?

5. What is the name on the money slip that indicates who put the money into Lang's bank account?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the conversation that Sarah Woolf and Lang have in Chapter 1 when they first meet.

2. What does O'Neil tell Sarah Woolf when he comes to talk to her and Lang in Chapter 3?

3. Describe the conversation that goes on between Lang and Spencer in Chapter 4?

4. Describe what Lang goes through when he first wakes up in the room after his motorcycle accident.

5. What happens when Lang returns to his apartment in Chapter 2?

6. Describe the conversation that Lang and the man he dubs Groomed have.

7. What does Lang speculate might be the reason that Woolf tried to hire Lang to kill him?

8. Describe the dinner that Lang has with Paulie.

9. What happens when O'Neil arrives in Lang's hospital room?

10. What do Solomon and Lang discuss when Lang tells Solomon that they know each other and Solomon should know that Lang would never kill someone for money?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) Describe Alexander Woolf.

Part 2) What does he symbolize in the story?

Part 3) Is there any indication that Barnes ever meant to do anything besides kill Alexander Woolf?

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) Speculate on the reasons that Michael Lucas was killed.

Part 2) Why was it significant that it was Michael's name used on the bank account?

Part 3) How would it have been different if it had been Woolf's name on the account? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Part 1) Why did the name of the main character remain unknown until the second chapter?

Part 2) Why did the identify of Woolf and McCluskey remain unknown until later in the book?

Part 3) When Lang is talking about himself while with the Sword of Truth why does he say 'Ricki said' rather than I?

Part 4) What is the significance of Lang believing that Barnes said Murder rather than Murdah the first time Murdah is mentioned?

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