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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 fate.
(b) His wife's snoring.
(c) Thoughts of deceased family members.
(d) A bad back.

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

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

4. In Chapter 1, what does Miles realize he is tired of?
(a) Being a single parent.
(b) Being lonely.
(c) Being a sheriff's deputy.
(d) Being an object of pity.

5. How old is Miles Ryan as the book begins?
(a) Thirty-two.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Twenty-nine.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Missy Ryan when she was killed?

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

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

4. Who is Caleb Bradham?

5. In Chapter 1, what one reason does Miles realize is stopping him from moving on with his life since Missy's death?

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