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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 Chenault want to do if Paul moves on?

2. Where does Paul fly to in this chapter?

3. What does Paul wish he had at the end of the section?

4. What does Paul tell Chenault he is tired of?

5. Who do Paul and Yeamon try to find in town?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why can Lotterman not pay his workers until Monday?

2. What does Chapter 13 say about Paul's ambition?

3. What happens to Chenault in Chapter 15?

4. How does Lotterman react over the news that the company paid Paul and Sala's bail bonds?

5. Describe Paul's time with Chenault and Yeamon in Chapter 13.

6. What does Paul arrange after his meeting with Lotterman?

7. What new work does Sanderson have for Paul?

8. What upsets Paul at the beginning of Chapter 10?

9. Describe Paul's time at the police station.

10. Describe Chenault's appearance at Paul's apartment in Chapter 17.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a 500-word essay revolving around the following statement: Paul does not make a success of his time in Puerto Rico because he lacks both direction and ambition.

Essay Topic 2

Lotterman thinks he will lose respect in the community because he is an ex-communist and the locals do not trust communists. What kind of political system did Pueto Rico have in the Sixties? What was Puerto Rico's relationship with communism?

Essay Topic 3

Identify the main themes of the story. Why do you think these themes are so important to the story? How does Thompson use character and setting to express these themes?

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