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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term does Ina use when she recognizes Silas's mother in the photograph Silas brings?
(a) Home-wrecker.
(b) Maid.
(c) Angel.
(d) Harlot.

2. In what month does the novel begin?
(a) September.
(b) December.
(c) April.
(d) February.

3. When Larry wakes up from his coma, he realizes that he is a suspect in what crimes?
(a) The robbery of the Chabot Bank.
(b) The rape and murder of Cindy Walker.
(c) The murder of Tina Rutherford and his own gunshot wound.
(d) The murders of Cindy Walker and Tina Rutherford.

4. What name does Carl call Larry during the contest over the rifle?
(a) Weakling.
(b) Pansy.
(c) Pantywaist.
(d) Milquetoast.

5. When Silas tells French everything he knows about the case, what is the only piece of information he withholds?
(a) That Wallace Stringfellow had been friends with Larry.
(b) That Larry is his half-brother.
(c) That Cindy had been pregnant.
(d) That Tina had been friends with Wallace Stringfellow.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what object is the window held up in the office Silas shares with Miss Voncille?

2. In what town does the novel take place?

3. From whom does Silas receive an answering machine message at the end of Chapter 4?

4. To whom is Larry planning to bring lunch before he is assaulted by a masked man?

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

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