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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 color was the dress Nola was wearing when she was killed?
(a) Green.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

2. What happened to Nola and Harry in Writer's Heaven?
(a) They run away together and Nola lived.
(b) Nola and Harry get married.
(c) Harry never learns what happened to Nola.
(d) The break up.

3. What did Harry tell Marcus Nola's mother used to do to her?
(a) Tell her she was too fat.
(b) Take her for ice cream and to the movies.
(c) Beat her and hold her head under the water.
(d) Tell her she needed to date younger men.

4. Who did Harry sit next to at the Somerset gala in 1975?
(a) Travis Dawn.
(b) Robert Quinn.
(c) Elijah Stern.
(d) Jenny Quinn.

5. What did the message written in lipstick on the mirror in the bathroom at the gala in 1975 say that shocked Harry?
(a) Get out.
(b) We hate you.
(c) Pedophile scum.
(d) Go home Harry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What evidence mostly exonerated Harry from the murder charges?

2. Who painted the painting of Nola that Elijah Stern kept in his house?

3. When Marcus and Gahalowood saw a painting of Luther's fiance, who did they think she resembled?

4. What was Gahalowood's theory right after Chief Pratt's death about who had killed Nola?

5. What was the name of Luther's fiance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Harry tell Marcus about the importance of failure?

2. What did Harry initially mean to do immediately after returning from Martha's Vineyard with Nola?

3. Why was the handwriting analysis of the writing on The Origin of Evil transcript that was buried with Nola so important and whose handwriting was it?

4. Why did Ernie Pinkas, the part-time Somerset librarian, ask Marcus to put his name in the acknowledgement section of his book?

5. Why does Luther Caleb chase Harry in his car immediately after Harry returns to Somerset from Martha's Vineyard?

6. Why was Tamara Quinn so upset that the note she stole from Harry's house that declares his love for Nola was stolen from her safe?

7. What did Nola tell Harry her mother did to her to punish her?

8. Why did Gahalowood invite Marcus to dinner at his house?

9. Why did Marcus tell his publisher he did not want to accept the help of ghostwriters for his book on Harry?

10. What shocking revelation did Chief Pratt confess to Gahalowood and Marcus when they questioned him at his house?

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