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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 Caitlin learn from a phone call that she receives at her office?

2. What is the current position held by the person Penn is stunned to see in Huntsville?

3. According to what Stone tells Penn, who does Stone believe arranged Payton's murder?

4. As Penn and his bodyguard are at the warehouse, shots are fired. How many men wind up dead?

5. Why had J. Edgar Hoover taken the Payton file after Stone had solved the case?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Penn ask Caitlin to accompany him on his upcoming trip?

2. Why does Caitlin change her mind about publishing Penn's accusations in her paper?

3. What announcement does the person Penn sees getting off an airplane in Baton Rouge make that shocks Penn?

4. What does Penn learn from the eyewitness that Penn tracks down upon his return to Natchez?

5. Why does Tom Cage at first not believe that Leo Marston would have been involved in Payton's murder?

6. What discrepancy catches Penn's eye about the Fairlane that is sitting in Althea's garden?

7. Describe one retaliatory event that occurs after Penn's accusations are published in the paper.

8. What is the real reason that Peter Lutjens is being transferred?

9. At Ruby's funeral, Shad Johnson gets up to speak. What does Johnson say?

10. When Annie is returned to Penn, there is also a note for Penn. What does the note say?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did the author choose "The Quiet Game" as the book's title? How does the title foreshadow the events that unfold in the story, the struggles of the main characters, and the violence portrayed in the story?

Essay Topic 2

Penn Cage and Olivia Marston become intimate during two different periods in their lives. Describe the circumstances surrounding each of these periods in which these two characters become involved. Then, examine how the first circumstances and the relationship these characters developed early in their lives impacted the circumstances surrounding their second meeting.

Essay Topic 3

Several times in the story, Penn seeks out the help of other people in order to move forward in both his investigation into the Payton murder and in his personal life.

a. Identify at least three times in the story in which Penn reaches out for help.

b. Compare and contrast each of these events in terms of the situation Penn is trying to understand, the effect of his asking for help, and the situation that immediately follows this time.

c. How might Penn's actions have impacted the story's plot if he hadn't reached out for help from others?

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