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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what one reason does Miles realize is stopping him from moving on with his life since Missy's death?
(a) Missy's death is still an unsolved case.
(b) The small town atmosphere and lack of single women.
(c) His obligations to his in-laws.
(d) Jonah.

2. What is the point of view of the prologue of this novel?
(a) Third person omniscient.
(b) Third person limited.
(c) First person.
(d) Authorial voice.

3. How old is Sarah as the novel begins?
(a) Twenty-eight.
(b) Forty.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Twenty-five.

4. In Chapter 5, what is Miles thinking about as he drives home with Jonah?
(a) Missy's death and Sarah and Jonah.
(b) His lunch with Charlie.
(c) Missy.
(d) Whether he should go fishing over the weekend or not.

5. In Chapter 7, what does Miles find himself wondering about Sarah?
(a) What her morning routine was like.
(b) The kind of movies she liked to watch.
(c) The kind of men she was attracted to.
(d) What she looked like fresh from bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is causing the unnamed narrator to have trouble sleeping in the prologue?

2. In Chapter 1, what reason does Jonah give Miles for not telling him about the trouble he was having in class?

3. In Chapter 2, what does Miles learn Otis Timson is claiming against him?

4. In Chapter 1, what reason does Miles give Jonah for not making pancakes for breakfast?

5. In Chapter 4, what does the unnamed narrator say people expected initially in the investigation of Missy's death?

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