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

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

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

4. 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) Mapes owes Vidrine a lot of money.
(d) Vidrine has an affair with Mapes's wife.

5. Why doesn't Dixie Lee want to go to the police?
(a) Because he's an ex-con.
(b) He thinks Dave would be able to help him more.
(c) He does not trust them.
(d) He is afraid of going back to prison.

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

7. Who welcomes Dave into his home?
(a) Cletus Purcel.
(b) Sally Dio.
(c) The local DEA officer.
(d) The town gossip.

8. Which one of the following shares a cell with Dave?
(a) A Vietnamese who garroted his business partner.
(b) A Russian Mafia hit man.
(c) A serial killer from Australia.
(d) A Chinese opium dealer.

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

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

11. Why were the charges dropped against Dixie Lee?
(a) Vidrine confesses to planting the drugs.
(b) Mapes confesses to planting the drugs.
(c) Lack of evidence.
(d) Because of a high priced lawyer paid for by Sally Dio.

12. Who arrives at the house as no surprise to Dave?
(a) Dixie Lee.
(b) Police.
(c) Sally Dio.
(d) Purcel.

13. To whom does the Sheriff suggest Dave go?
(a) FBI.
(b) DEA.
(c) CIA.
(d) Highway Patrol.

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

15. How does Dave's daughter like to speak?
(a) Like a Cajun.
(b) Like she is English.
(c) In pig Latin.
(d) Like a valley girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dave think Dixie Lee should do?

2. What does Purcel do?

3. Who is Cletus Purcel?

4. How are Dixie Lee and Sally Dio connected?

5. For whom does Dan Nygurski work?

(see the answer keys)

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