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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 does the message on Elvis's work phone say?

2. Where does Janet take Ellen's daughters?

3. Where did the police find Ellen's car abandoned?

4. Why is Elvis at Ellen's home in Chapter 7?

5. In Chapter 6, what does Elvis do before he makes breakfast?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Dom?

2. What significance does Kansas have in "The Monkey's Raincoat"?

3. Describe Elvis's relationship to his cat.

4. Why does Ellen go to Elvis for help?

5. Who is Elvis?

6. Why is Ellen comforted by domesticity?

7. What happens to Ellen in Chapter 12?

8. Why does Elvis not believe that Mort ransacked the Langs' home?

9. Describe how Elvis becomes Ellen's teacher.

10. What does Elvis realize at Kimberly Marsh's apartment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss why Pike paints Ellen's face with lipstick as they prepare to meet Dom at his estate.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the motif of protection over women and, especially, over children. What does this repeated image suggest?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and explain how Elvis's personal vice is his drinking habit and how his disdain for drugs is a paradox to his own habit.

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