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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miles refer to as D-Day?
(a) The anniversary of the day he became a deputy.
(b) Date day.
(c) Donuts for breakfast day.
(d) Dog to the vet day.

2. What is the question the unnamed narrator asks as he begins the prologue?
(a) What is the definition of beginning?
(b) How do you begin a story?
(c) Does a story begin with tragedy?
(d) Where does a story begin?

3. In Chapter 6, what does Sarah say makes her hate Michael so much?
(a) He humiliated her.
(b) She loved him, making what happened between them worse.
(c) He never loved her.
(d) She never liked him.

4. What aspect of Missy's case bothers Miles the most, according to Brenda in Chapter 8?
(a) She lay on the side of the road for so long.
(b) He is a sheriff's deputy, he takes it as a personal failing that the driver was never found..
(c) He was not the one to find her.
(d) He feels he should have gone with her, should have protected her.

5. What do the boys initially tell Miles they were hunting in the abandoned house?
(a) Owls.
(b) Rabbits.
(c) Sparrows.
(d) Rats.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what does Miles think is the difference between his attraction to Missy and his attraction to Sarah?

2. In Chapter 5, what does Jonah think is causing Miles' silence in the car ride home?

3. What is the point of view of the prologue of this novel?

4. With whom does Sarah go shopping in Chapter 6?

5. What does Jonah sleep with every night that Missy gave him?

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