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

2. 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.

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

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

5. How does Sally plan to use the land Dixie Lee has been helping him purchase?
(a) To grow poppies.
(b) To farm peanuts.
(c) To import and export illegal drugs.
(d) To grow cotton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after Dave has been in jail for three weeks?

2. How does Dixie Lee kill a child?

3. Why does Dave have to spend the night there?

4. Who is someone else who shares the cell with Dave?

5. What does Dave do with his daughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Dave the day after his encounter with Mapes and Vidrine and do you think he is a responsible parent in that incident?

2. What is Dave remembering at the end of this chapter and how might that memory influence him to some sort of action?

3. What evidence is there that Purcel is still on the wrong side of the law?

4. How does Dave spend his time in jail?

5. What does Dave find in his mailbox and what is the Sheriff's response to it?

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

7. Do you think Dave's wife is actually coming to him in a dream or it is Dave just reminding himself to go to AA?

8. What does Dio offer Dave and what is Dave's response? Do you think Dave is right to refuse Dio's aid?

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

10. What is Sally Dio like and what is his connection to Dixie Lee?

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