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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time had Bailey told Kinsey that he'd been on the beach with Jean the night she died?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Ten o'clock.
(c) Eleven o'clock.
(d) Eleven thirty.

2. Tap Granger's widow tells Kinsey that he had recently come into some money. How did she say he got the money?
(a) He had won the money in a bet.
(b) He had made some good investments.
(c) He inherited it from his uncle.
(d) He had a winning lottery ticket.

3. What is Dr. Dunne's reaction to the news of Ori's death?
(a) He seems genuinely surprised.
(b) He laughs.
(c) He tears up and expresses grief.
(d) He says, "Good riddance".

4. Having no success at the Baptist Church, Kinsey heads to the apartment where the Timberlakes lived when Jean died. What does she notice there?
(a) A stairway behind the apartment that leads up to a road above.
(b) Mail addressed to Shana.
(c) A crate full of empty liquor bottles.
(d) Clothing in the style of seventeen years earlier.

5. What does Kinsey's dinner companion tell her as they eat at the restaurant?
(a) That he hated the town and wanted to leave.
(b) That his wife had been sick for years and had died of multiple sclerosis.
(c) That he wanted to become a private investigator.
(d) That he wanted to ask Kinsey out.

Short Answer Questions

1. The man who headed the youth group tells Kinsey that Jean was involved with a married man. Who was it?

2. What does Kinsey learn from the document she obtains at the courthouse?

3. Who shows up at the restaurant where Kinsey is having dinner? Why is this individual angry?

4. What happens soon after Kinsey makes her phone calls to Shana and Dr. Dunne?

5. At the end of Chapter 24, Kinsey talks to Ann. Why does Kinsey feel she better get back to the motel as soon as possible?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the name of the man who had led the Baptist Church group when he was young? What does he do for a living? How did he respond to Kinsey's suggestion that Jean was interested in him?

2. After Kinsey is attacked at the spa, where does she go to eat? Who does she end up eating with and what do they talk about?

3. After her talk with Dr. Dunne, Kinsey returns to the motel and learns from Jack Clemson that Bailey has been given sanctuary at the church by Mrs. Haws. Kinsey then decides to go back to the Eucalyptus Mineral Springs spa. What does she find there and what does this discovery lead her to?

4. Why does Kinsey head over to the Baptist Church after finding the item outside the apartment? What happens there? Where does she go next and what does she speculate about?

5. What does the man who headed the Baptist youth group tell Kinsey about the Reverend Haws? How does he know this?

6. At the beginning of Chapter 21, Kinsey phones both Shana and Dr. Dunne's office. What does she want to know? Is she successful?

7. Kinsey decides to go visit Tap Granger's widow, Joleen. What is her impression of Joleen? What does Joleen tell Kinsey about Tap?

8. When Kinsey goes back to the motel after talking to members of a local family at the pool hall, who does she run into? What does this person tell her?

9. What happens at the end of Chapter 24 that sends Kinsey racing back to the motel?

10. Who shows up when Kinsey was visiting Joleen Granger? What does he tell Kinsey?

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