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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 did Melinda use the money for?

2. What does Sughrue do to Torres's hand?

3. What does Sughrue initially doubt concerning his relationship with Catherine?

4. What war story does Sughrue reveal to Trahearne?

5. At the end of their romantic interlude, what do Catherine and Sughrue confess to each other?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Catherine's sexual relationship with Sughrue manipulative?

3. Why does Catherine sleep with Sughrue?

4. When Sughrue walks away from Catherine, what does that mean?

5. How do Sughrue and Traherne get along in Montana?

6. Why does Trahearne start drinking again?

7. Why would Selma have lied to Sughrue about Betty Sue's death?

8. How would Melinda's past life affected her present day life?

9. What does it say about Stacy that she invites Sughrue to her bed after hearing his conversation with Melinda?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sughrue describes Melinda's sculptures many times and realizes there is a connection between Melinda and her art. How do these sculptures parallel Melinda?

Essay Topic 2

Stacy has a small role in the novel. She does deal with all major characters at least once. What is the purpose of Stacy's character?

Essay Topic 3

San Francisco as a location for much of the plot development is ironic. San Francisco has two sides--the place where free thinkers live and the place where people like Betty Sue disappear. What is ironic about the two views of San Francisco?

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