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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. Where do Sughrue and Catherine go to sleep together?

2. How does Sughrue try to end his relationship with Catherine?

3. Once inside Hyland's home, what does Sughrue do for Melinda?

4. How does Catherine try to end her relationship with Sughrue?

5. What do Stacy and Sughrue spend a couple days doing after the ordeal at Hyland's home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Melinda offer herself to Sughrue?

2. Why would Sughrue immediately head out to California after the phone call from Jimmy Joe?

3. Has Trahearne been fair to Sughrue, in his use of Sughrue's investigative skills?

4. How do the activities that Sughrue and Stacy do epitomize their relationship?

5. How does Trahearne and Sughrue's war-story telling force them to bond?

6. Why would Torres still demand the forty thousand dollars from Melinda?

7. Why would Sughrue make a superficial joke about Catherine''s age?

8. According to Catherine, what is Trahearne and Melinda's marriage like?

9. What is Trahearne's failure to write symbolic of? How?

10. What are some reasons Sughrue won't accept Melinda?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Edna owns the town's hotel. The story behind her acquisition is important to the story's development, especially Betty Sue's life. How is the hotel symbolic and what is the connection to Betty Sue/Melinda?

Essay Topic 2

Character traits are shown through their living quarters. Contrast Sughrue's acreage to Trahearne's home. How do their homes indirectly characterize them?

Essay Topic 3

How is Selma Hinds a catalyst in the novel?

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