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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dave tell Dixie Lee a few days later?
(a) Dave wants to know more of the financial status of Dixie's company.
(b) Dave believes Dixie Lee is the murderer.
(c) Dave thinks he has a good lead and is heading to Montana.
(d) He cannot help him anymore.

2. Where does Dave encounter Dixie Lee?
(a) A roadside cafe.
(b) The police station.
(c) A highway rest stop.
(d) A drugstore.

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

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

5. How does Dave react to Dixie Lee contacting Sally?
(a) He is not altogether sure Sally is not the one trying to kill Dixie Lee.
(b) He thinks Sally may be able to help.
(c) He chastises Dixie Lee.
(d) He does not offer an opinion about it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. In what decade did Dixie Lee drop out of college?
(a) The 60s.
(b) The 80s.
(c) The 70s.
(d) The 50s.

13. Who visits Dave after he's been in jail for two weeks?
(a) The DEA guy.
(b) Alafair.
(c) Sally Dio.
(d) Dixie Lee and Cletus Purcel.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What interferes with Dixie Lee's success?

2. Why can the Sheriff do nothing about the letter?

3. How does Dixie Lee kill a child?

4. Who is Cletus Purcel?

5. Why is Dixie Lee arrested?

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