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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was wrong with the oil rig on which Dave's father is killed?
(a) It did not have a blowout preventer.
(b) It was capped incorrectly.
(c) The steel was weak.
(d) It was dry.

2. Who overhears Dave talking to the sheriff about the fire?
(a) Vidrine and Mapes.
(b) Sally Dio.
(c) An ex-druggie who knows Sally Dio.
(d) A DEA agent.

3. What does Dave say he will do for Dixie Lee?
(a) Give Dixie Lee a pistol.
(b) Speak to the police on Dixie Lee's behalf.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Investigate.

4. What interferes with Dixie Lee's success?
(a) His vocal chords become harmed.
(b) Drugs and alcohol.
(c) Two more kids coming along.
(d) A vindictive label company.

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

6. What does Dave do immediately upon his arrival in Montana?
(a) Rents a house.
(b) Calls Purcel.
(c) Calls Dixie Lee.
(d) Buys a pistol.

7. What does Dave think Dixie Lee should do?
(a) Hire a bodyguard.
(b) Go to the police.
(c) Hire a lawyer.
(d) Take out a contract on the two men.

8. Where does Dave go?
(a) To talk with some friends in the FBI.
(b) To look at the remains of the fire.
(c) To his daughter's school play.
(d) To talk with some friends in the CIA.

9. Why does Dave think Mapes kills Vidrine?
(a) Mapes thinks Vidrine is going to break and confess about the murder.
(b) Vidrine is blackmailing Mapes.
(c) Vidrine has an affair with Mapes's wife.
(d) Mapes owes Vidrine a lot of money.

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

11. How are Dixie Lee and Sally Dio connected?
(a) They are cousins.
(b) They shared a prison cell.
(c) They are brother-in-laws.
(d) They are best friends from high school.

12. Who is Cletus Purcel?
(a) Dave's ex-brother-in-law.
(b) Dave's ex-partner.
(c) Dave's ex-boss.
(d) Dixie Lee's brother-in-law.

13. What is Dixie Lee doing though it's early in the morning?
(a) Eating a big steak.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Making phone calls.
(d) Watching football re-runs.

14. How does Dave spend the majority of his time in his cell?
(a) Singing to himself to annoy the other cellmates.
(b) Talking to his cellmates to gather information.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Filling out loan applications and reading old magazines

15. Why does Dave do what he does in question 53?
(a) Because they are involved in a drug ring.
(b) Because Dave wants more information.
(c) Because of the threat against Alafair.
(d) To ask Dio if he set them up.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Purcel go to South America?

2. What does Dixie Lee overhear?

3. Who does Dixie Lee believe tried to kill him?

4. Who does Dave call to tell he is in Montana and that he believes Dio has something to do with Mapes, Vidrine, and the murder they supposedly committed?

5. What do a used hypodermic needle, a picture of a headless Vietnamese girl, and a letter threatening Alafair have in common?

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