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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 language does Mike learn at the Higgins Institute?

2. What is the group in CA called?

3. Why does Amelia think Mike doesn't talk?

4. What is taken from the first safe Mike cracks?

5. What does Lucy do when she sees Mike work?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mike refuse to reveal his accomplices the first time he is arrested?

2. What favor does Mike do for Brian Hauser?

3. What does Gunnar make Mike do when they meet, and why?

4. What ruins the first friendship Mike ever had?

5. Why does Mr. Marsh have Mr. Randolph come to the house?

6. What does Ron tell the police after handcuffing Mike?

7. What does Lucy say when she sees Mike doing what Gunnary demanded?

8. What was the problem with the diamond heist?

9. What does Mr. Marsh want Mike to do for him, and why?

10. What does Mike do when things go wrong at the second diamond heist?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Despair was a theme that was placed in a number of sensitive places in this plot. What are some of these places, and what role did despair play in this play?

Essay Topic 2

What took Mike's voice away, and what does he hope will bring it back?

Essay Topic 3

What role does symbolism play in the story, and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

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