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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The woman into whom Silas runs at the bar called The Bus says that her roommate had dated a guy with a collection of guns and a collection of what?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Postage stamps.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Butterflies.

2. In what task is Miss Voncille immersed when Silas sees her in Town Hall and asks her for a favor?
(a) Balancing the town's budget.
(b) Planning the Fourth of July parade.
(c) Sending out parking tickets.
(d) Doing her taxes.

3. Silas says that Larry had always had a particular affinity for what type of creature?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Mice.
(c) Walruses.
(d) Horses.

4. What adjective is used to describe the weapon with which Wallace Stringfellow emerges from his house?
(a) Snub-nosed.
(b) Double-barreled.
(c) Small.
(d) Large.

5. How many years before Tina Rutherford's disappearance had Larry started to notice signs of visitors to the barn?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 19.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. What weather is taking place outside of Larry's hospital room at the start of Chapter 13?

2. What is peculiar about the phone bill Silas finds in Larry's house?

3. What does Silas discover underneath the place where his bed had used to be within the cabin in the woods?

4. What lack does Silas feel deeply as he walks home in the dark from Larry's house the only time he goes there during his adolescence?

5. What will be the lasting effects of Silas's dog bite, according to the narrator?

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