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

2. What is Trumann's plan to scare Mark into telling all he knows?
(a) To threaten the boy when his lawyer's not around.
(b) To charge Ricky with Romey's death.
(c) To subpoena the boy to a grand jury.
(d) To take Ricky into custody, too.

3. After police examine the area in which Romey dies, where is Ricky sent?
(a) To a neighborhood clinic.
(b) To a juvenile detention facility.
(c) To jail.
(d) To the hospital.

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

5. Who decides that Mark should not tell the pertinent information in Judge Harry's court?
(a) Reggie and Fink.
(b) Reggie and Judge Harry.
(c) Reggie and Mrs. Sway.
(d) Reggie and Momma Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mark win over the detention center attendant?

2. In talking with the FBI, Reggie finds that they have broken two more rules to get information. What information do they illegally obtain?

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

4. What fee does Reggie charge Mark as a retainer?

5. Why is Reggie furious when she leaves the psychiatrist's office?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mark dodge the important question during his hearing, and what is the result?

2. Describe the physical appearance and working relationships of Willis Upchurch.

3. What are the problems that Mark mulls over when he is taken from his mother and brother to a juvenile detention facility? How does he feel?

4. How does Mark make the detention center attendant feel sorry for him when he returns to his cell following his juvenile hearing? What does he get out of the pity?

5. Discuss Mark's knowledge of life.

6. What does Reggie do when she learns that Diane has been fired?

7. How does the mafia threaten Mark face-to-face?

8. Describe the only real-life experience that Mark has had with lawyers until now.

9. In what ways does Reggie claim that Mark's rights have been violated during the investigation of Romey's death?

10. Describe Trumann's brilliant idea for making Mark talk if the juvenile hearing fails to do so.

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