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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Dave apply for a loan?
(a) To pay for a lawyer.
(b) To hire a nanny to stay with Alafair while he is in jail.
(c) To pay off his mortgage so Alafair will have a place if something happens to Dave.
(d) To cover his fifteen thousand dollar portion of the one hundred and fifty thousand dollar bail.

2. What does Dave buy Alafair?
(a) A golden retriever.
(b) A doll.
(c) An Appaloosa pony.
(d) An Easter dress.

3. What does Purcel do?
(a) Works security.
(b) Infiltrates drug lord's organizations.
(c) Whatever the Mafia Boss wants.
(d) Investigates terrorists organizations.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dave tell Dixie Lee a few days later?

2. Why does Purcel go to South America?

3. How old is Dave's daughter, Alafair?

4. Back at home, what does Dave try to do?

5. Who does Dixie Lee think Mapes and Vidrine killed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nygurski say Sally Dio is doing?

2. What do you think the package in Dave's mailbox means?

3. Who are Dave's cell mates and why is he placed in this cell?

4. What horrific event has happened not to long ago to Dave and how is he handling it?

5. Who is Nygurski; why does he visit Dave, and what does Dave tell him?

6. What does Dixie Lee do that is perhaps a typical manipulative action of an alcoholic?

7. How does Dave accidentally alert Mapes and Vidrine that he is looking into the fire at Dixie Lee's place? Why do you think the Sheriff allows this to happen?

8. What does Dave do to get himself thrown off Dio's property and is this a pattern of Dave's?

9. What does Dave decide to do and why does he make this decision?

10. Why do you think Dave refuses to help his old friend, Dixie Lee?

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