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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 are the terms of Sughrue and Torres's arrangement?
(a) The police will only know what happened to Hyland.
(b) Sughrue is not pursued and Melinda goes free.
(c) Stacy will take the blame for Melinda.
(d) Sughrue gets Melinda's money and Torres goes free.

2. When did Catherine fall in love with Trahearne?
(a) During one of his hospital stays.
(b) While he was engaged to Melinda.
(c) When she graduated college.
(d) Shortly after the death of her first husband.

3. How faithful is Melinda in her marriage to Trahearne?
(a) She tried to stay committed to him.
(b) Consistently unfaithful.
(c) Quite faithful.
(d) She had only one affair.

4. How does Catherine try to end her relationship with Sughrue?
(a) With a polite kiss.
(b) With cold glances.
(c) With a hug.
(d) With a phone number exchange.

5. Who sent Betty Sue's father the postcard?
(a) Catherine.
(b) Sughrue.
(c) Trahearne.
(d) Melinda.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Jackson and his men do at the Hind's home?

2. What does Sughrue do for Stacy after she wakes during the night after the events at Hyland's home?

3. When did Trahearne become unable to write?

4. Where does Sughrue take Stacy after the ordeal at Hyland's home?

5. How does Sughrue try to end his relationship with Catherine?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Sughrue and Traherne get along in Montana?

2. How is Catherine's sexual relationship with Sughrue manipulative?

3. According to Catherine, what is Trahearne and Melinda's marriage like?

4. When Sughrue walks away from Catherine, what does that mean?

5. Why would Betty Sue need convincing to contact Rosie?

6. What does it say about Stacy that she invites Sughrue to her bed after hearing his conversation with Melinda?

7. How does Trahearne and Sughrue's war-story telling force them to bond?

8. Why does Trahearne start drinking again?

9. Has Trahearne been fair to Sughrue, in his use of Sughrue's investigative skills?

10. What is Trahearne's failure to write symbolic of? How?

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