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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the police officer suspect that Mark is lying?
(a) His claims sound fishy.
(b) Because he overhears Mark telling his mother the truth.
(c) Because he failed the lie detector test.
(d) When he lies, his left eye twitches.

2. Who is not in the mood to kill anyone in Chapter 27?
(a) Reggie.
(b) Gronke.
(c) Nance.
(d) Muldanno.

3. How does Mark understand what Reggie takes every month?
(a) He has heard the term on TV.
(b) The doctor has been talking about anti-depressants.
(c) His own mother regularly takes sleeping pills.
(d) He took a weekend vacation once with his father.

4. When Mark finally tells his mother and the doctor the truth about what he witnessed, of which part are they skeptical?
(a) That he isn't guilty of killing Romey.
(b) That he just remembered those details.
(c) That he saw anything at all.
(d) That he's not part of the mob.

5. What does the doctor tell Ricky's family is vital to his recovery?
(a) Lots of medication fed through an IV.
(b) Years of mental counseling.
(c) Mark and their mom must be in the room when he awakens.
(d) They both must stay away from him.

6. How does Mark temporarily get away from his interview with the FBI?
(a) He says he's tired and needs a nap.
(b) He asks to go to the restroom.
(c) He asks for a cola.
(d) He bolts for the door.

7. What does Fink tell Foltrigg needs to be done before Mark talks?
(a) He needs to be abused in jail.
(b) They need to scare Reggie to make him talk.
(c) They need to put his brother in jail, too.
(d) A witness protection plan needs to be in place.

8. When will Trumann's plan be put into action?
(a) If Mark doesn't tell enough information in juvenile court.
(b) A week after he is put in jail.
(c) As soon as possible.
(d) Right away.

9. Which offices are bugged by the mob?
(a) Reggie's and the FBI.
(b) The FBI and Romey.
(c) Reggie's and Ricky's doctor.
(d) The Doctor and The Memphis Sun.

10. What is the FBI's complaint about Romey's suicide?
(a) It will delay their case against The Blade for 6 months.
(b) They don't like investigating the Mafia.
(c) It cut into their vacation.
(d) Their work load is already huge.

11. What two difficult tasks are the FBI and the district attorney's office faced with in Chapter 13?
(a) Getting Mark to talk or getting Reggie to betray her attorney/client privilege.
(b) Getting Mark to talk and keeping his mother quiet.
(c) Getting Mark to confess to the shooting and getting Ricky's testimony.
(d) Getting the doctor to talk and getting Mark to confess.

12. What does Mark shout to the media as cops take him from the hospital to jail?
(a) That they are all losers and need to get a real job.
(b) That the cops beat down his mother and are taking a little kid to jail.
(c) That the cops are hurting him.
(d) That the cops are torturing his family.

13. What does Mark ask the jail attendant to bring him in Chapter 26?
(a) Tacos.
(b) A Bible.
(c) Pizza.
(d) A phone.

14. Where does Mark's knowledge of the mob come from?
(a) His uncle Vinny's own involvement.
(b) From books and magazines.
(c) Watching The Godfather on cable.
(d) Educational TV.

15. What keeps Mark from lying on the stand while being questioned?
(a) His upstanding moral code.
(b) He saw someone on TV die when they lied.
(c) Fear of a polygraph test.
(d) Fear of his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is there so much media coverage of Romey's funeral?

2. Who else is the mob paying to watch Mark?

3. Who is hired by the mob to follow Mark's every move?

4. Who meets Muldanno in a restaurant?

5. Why is Mark's mother crying when Reggie arrives at the hospital in Chapter 16?

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