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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 three words did Clay say while looking back at his work before walking to the town in "The Boy With Bleeding Hands" (196)?
(a) "Wait for me."
(b) "Here goes nothing."
(c) "I let go."
(d) "I made it."

2. What did Penelope and Michael do with Michael's paintings of Abbey when they married?
(a) They sold them.
(b) They burned them.
(c) They gave them away.
(d) They kept them.

3. On the title page of "The Clay Stack," Michael Dunbar wrote to Clay to refer to what page in "THE OLD PLAN"?
(a) 49.
(b) 26.
(c) 64.
(d) 24.

4. On what date were Michael and Penelope married?
(a) February 17.
(b) May 30.
(c) April 23.
(d) January 23.

5. How tall is the Murderer described as being in "Portrait of a Killer as a Middle-Aged Man"?
(a) 5'8".
(b) 6'.
(c) 5'10".
(d) 6'2".

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the gray and black tabby cat described in "The Greeks Got Him"?

2. What color hair did Penelope have?

3. Matthew describes Rory and Henry looking like melded elements in "The Forces are Displayed" (76). What elements does he describe combined?

4. What was the date that the Murderer was said to have come home in "The Forces are Displayed"?

5. On what street did Michael grow up in Featherton?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Penelope gain the nickname "The Broken-Nosed Bride"?

2. How is the setting of The Surrounds described?

3. What pets do the Dunbars have? What is the significance of their names?

4. What is The Quarryman and why does the author reference it in the novel?

5. Who/what is Moon and what does it represent?

6. Where is Michael's home and the bridge site located? How is this setting described?

7. What do garages signify in the novel?

8. Where did Michael and Abbey go after high school? Why?

9. Where is the Murderer when Matthew finds him in the house in Part 1? What is he doing?

10. What did Michael do after his mother died? Why?

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