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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. Who briefs Foltrigg about the Memphis police investigation?
(a) Jason McThune.
(b) Wally Boxx.
(c) Justin Greenway.
(d) Clifford Romey.

2. How does Romey implicate Mark as having some connection with his suicide?
(a) By writing "Mark did it" on his suicide note.
(b) By writing Mark's name on the back of his suicide note.
(c) By leaving the recording of him talking to Mark in the car.
(d) By writing Mark's name in the dirt on the car window.

3. What does Mark wear when he meets with FBI investigators for the first time?
(a) A tape recorder hidden in the cuff of his jeans.
(b) A tape recorder hidden under his shirt.
(c) A gun hidden in his pocket.
(d) A gun hidden in the cuff of his jeans.

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

5. After witnessing Romey's death, what happens when the two boys get home?
(a) Ricky collapses in a state of shock.
(b) Mark wets his pants.
(c) Ricky calls his mother.
(d) Ricky calls the police.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the FBI's complaint about Romey's suicide?

2. What happens to Mark on the elevator in Chapter 14?

3. How does Mark understand what Reggie takes every month?

4. Who tells Clint that he is a reporter who wants to talk with Reggie?

5. What keeps Mark from lying on the stand while being questioned?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Mrs. Sway's concern about the witness protection program.

2. 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?

3. Mark grapples with the idea of lying on the stand. Why does he decide not to lie?

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

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

6. Discuss Judge Harry Roosevelt's dedication to his job.

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

8. Discuss Mark's knowledge of life.

9. Why does Reggie object to the juvenile hearing and why doesn't she ask for a continuance?

10. 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?

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