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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue and Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is causing the unnamed narrator to have trouble sleeping in the prologue?
(a) Thoughts of deceased family members.
(b) His wife's snoring.
(c) Thoughts of fate.
(d) A bad back.

2. How does the unnamed narrator say that Missy and Miles met?
(a) Introduced by their parents after college.
(b) At a high school party.
(c) Introduced by friends in high school.
(d) At a college frat party.

3. In Chapter 1, what is Miles doing as he sits on his back porch?
(a) Crying.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Smoking.
(d) Talking on the phone.

4. What is the point of view used in the majority of this novel?
(a) Third person omniscient.
(b) First person.
(c) Third person limited.
(d) Authoria voice.

5. How old was Missy Ryan when she was killed?
(a) Twenty-nine.
(b) Forty.
(c) Thirty-two.
(d) Twenty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had the biggest hand in restoring New Bern's historic buildings?

2. In what year was Jonah born?

3. Who is Charlie Curtis?

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

5. What does the unnamed narrator say this story is about in the prologue?

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