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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dave do the day that Alafair stays home from school?
(a) Makes phone calls to lawyers.
(b) Works in the yard.
(c) Watches videos with Alafair.
(d) Sleeps.

2. Who does Dixie Lee believe tried to kill him?
(a) Vidrine and Mapes.
(b) Mapes and Sally Dio.
(c) Sally Dio.
(d) Vidrine and Dio.

3. Back at home, what does Dave try to do?
(a) Try to pretend nothing happened.
(b) Put his affairs in order in case he goes to prison.
(c) Settle into his routine.
(d) Soothe Alafair's fears.

4. For whom does Dan Nygurski work?
(a) FBI.
(b) FEMA.
(c) CIA.
(d) DEA.

5. How is Dixie Lee injured?
(a) In a cabin fire.
(b) When his car caught fire.
(c) In a plane fire.
(d) In a hotel fire.

6. What effectively ends Dixie Lee's career?
(a) His vocal chords never heal right.
(b) Prison time.
(c) He is sued by the record label company.
(d) His wife dies and he is too grieved to perform.

7. What does the letter Dave receives tell him to do?
(a) Make an appointment with one of Alafair's teachers.
(b) Go to a certain place to find information about Vidrine and Mapes.
(c) Stop making accusations against Vidrine and Mapes.
(d) Hush Dixie Lee.

8. What is Dixie Lee's job when Dave encounters him?
(a) A manager/agent for a band.
(b) A drill man for an oil company.
(c) A leaseman for an oil company.
(d) A car salesman.

9. Why is Dave thrown out of Sally Dio's home?
(a) For insulting Dio's father.
(b) For asking about a murder from several years back.
(c) For asking about Mapes.
(d) For insulting Cletus Purcel.

10. What does the person in Dave's dream tell him?
(a) That Vidrine is not really dead.
(b) Not to forget his AA meetings.
(c) That Dixie Lee knows who Mapes and Vidrine killed.
(d) That Mapes is on his way to Montana.

11. Who is Tex?
(a) The name Dave jokingly calls the doll he bought Alafair.
(b) Appaloosa pony.
(c) Dave's brother.
(d) What Alafair names the golden retriever.

12. Who does Dixie Lee believe planted drugs in his car?
(a) Sally Dio.
(b) Vidrine and Sally Dio.
(c) Mapes and Sally Dio.
(d) Vidrine and Mapes.

13. What does Dave do after Vidrine and Mapes are alone?
(a) Beats them.
(b) Question them.
(c) Calls Sally Dio.
(d) Calls the police.

14. Who does Dave ask about having some "company" that night in the motel room?
(a) A woman standing on a street corner near the motel where Vidrine and Mapes are staying.
(b) The bartender at the motel bar where Vidrine and Mapes are staying.
(c) The desk clerk at the motel where Vidrine and Mapes are staying.
(d) A room service employee where Vidrine and Mapes are staying.

15. Why does Dave decide to go to Montana?
(a) To investigate Dio.
(b) To find evidence to discredit Mapes.
(c) To get Alafair to a safe place.
(d) To investigate Dixie Lee.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dave spend the majority of his time in his cell?

2. What does Dave think Dixie Lee should do?

3. For whom does Purcel work?

4. Where is Alafair staying while Dave is in jail?

5. How are Dixie Lee and Sally Dio connected?

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