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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are Tess and the Principal of the school angry with Dave?
(a) For putting the school in danger.
(b) For wanting to talk with the older boy.
(c) They are not angry with him.
(d) For not being upfront at the start of Alafair going to school there.

2. What subject causes Hollister to threaten Dave?
(a) Hollister does not threaten Dave.
(b) Vidrine and Mapes.
(c) Dixie Lee's innocence.
(d) Dave's father's death.

3. Who is Batist?
(a) A Roman Catholic priest at Alafair's school.
(b) An acquaintance of Vidrine and Mapes.
(c) Dave's employee.
(d) A gangster who hires out on murder contracts.

4. Who moves in with Dave?
(a) Dixie Lee.
(b) Purcel.
(c) The babysitter.
(d) No one.

5. What does Dave learn from Tess Reagan?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The older boy who say someone is prone to lying.
(c) The older boy recants his story.
(d) An older boy saw a man sitting in a yellow car watching Alafair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was injured by a boat?

2. Who appears while Dave and his father are fishing?

3. What surprises Dave?

4. What does Dave tell Dixie Lee a few days later?

5. What happened to Mapes when he is 17?

(see the answer key)

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