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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Dixie Lee visit Dave?
(a) He does not visit Dave.
(b) Dave calls and invites him.
(c) He encounters Dave again accidentally.
(d) To ask Dave's help.

3. What does Dave believe about the person he asks for company?
(a) That she is a smalltime pimp.
(b) That she is involved in the murder case.
(c) That he is involved in the murder case.
(d) That he is a smalltime pimp.

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

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

6. Why can the Sheriff do nothing about the letter?
(a) There are no fingerprints or other identification.
(b) It is out of his jurisdiction.
(c) He says it could just be a prank.
(d) He says Dave has no proof it was addressed to Dave.

7. Why does Dixie Lee ask Sally Dio for help?
(a) For bail money.
(b) To give Dixie a new identity.
(c) To kill whoever is trying to kill him.
(d) To get off the drug charge.

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

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

10. 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?
(a) The FBI.
(b) Nygurski.
(c) The prosecutor who initiated the charges against Dave.
(d) The bail bondsman.

11. Who was Sally Dio's father?
(a) One of the most powerful criminals in Galveston.
(b) An ex-Congressman from Texas.
(c) The District Attorney in Galveston.
(d) The District Attorney in New Orleans.

12. Where is Alafair staying while Dave is in jail?
(a) With Dave's deceased wife's best friend.
(b) With her grandmother.
(c) With Dave's aunt.
(d) With a cousin.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dave want to leave Alafair?

2. What effectively ends Dixie Lee's career?

3. What does Dave buy Alafair?

4. Why were the charges dropped against Dixie Lee?

5. What happened to Cletus Purcel's legal problems?

(see the answer keys)

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