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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jennifer worrying about at the end of Chapter 11?
(a) Her first date in many years.
(b) Losing her sanity.
(c) Losing her job.
(d) Robert.

2. What does Catch ask for from Billy?
(a) Something to drink.
(b) A massage.
(c) Food.
(d) A quarter.

3. How does the detective explain the person on the tape to himself?
(a) He thinks something supernatural occurred.
(b) He thinks someone edited the tape.
(c) He thinks he fell asleep.
(d) He thinks he hallucinated.

4. What treat does Effrom give himself on the morning his wife is absent?
(a) Real ham.
(b) Real eggs.
(c) Real fruit.
(d) Real coffee.

5. What is Augustus trying to figure out how to do?
(a) Track down Catch.
(b) Marry Rachel.
(c) Rid himself of Gian.
(d) Reunite Jenny and Robert.

6. What does Augustus admit he knows about Jenny, the waitress?
(a) That she has split up with her husband.
(b) That she is having an affair.
(c) That she is older than she appears.
(d) That she has lost her job.

7. What does Augustus explain to Gian at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) Women.
(b) Movies.
(c) Music.
(d) Religion.

8. What does Catch say about pushing cars?
(a) It is a job for a human.
(b) It is hard work.
(c) It is hungry work.
(d) It is beneath him.

9. What does the author note about the ingredients in Jennifer's bath?
(a) They make her ill.
(b) They are the same as in primordial ooze.
(c) They are the same as in manure.
(d) They are the same as in honey.

10. How long has the detective been trying to catch The Breeze?
(a) Three months.
(b) One year.
(c) Six months.
(d) Two years.

11. How does he escape?
(a) In a taxi.
(b) In a police car.
(c) In his Jaguar.
(d) In a van.

12. What is the primary industry of Pine Cove today?
(a) Whaling.
(b) Medicinal herbs.
(c) Tourism.
(d) Mining.

13. How long has the demon been with Travis?
(a) Seventy years.
(b) Three years.
(c) A thousand years.
(d) Eighty years.

14. Why does Rachel move to Pine Cove?
(a) It has the largest population of divorced men.
(b) It is by the sea.
(c) It is quiet.
(d) It has the largest population of divorced women.

15. Where does Robert go at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) To H.P.'s.
(b) To the Head of the Slug.
(c) To the bait shop.
(d) To The Breeze's trailer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Mile Tobin in Chapter 2?

2. What causes Rachel to break up with her lover in Berkeley?

3. Why is Robert fired from his supermarket position?

4. What does Gian order at the bar?

5. What happened to Rachel's first husband?

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