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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What object does Wallace Stringfellow name when he mentions strangling women?
(a) A metal chain.
(b) A nylon stocking.
(c) A garotte.
(d) A belt.

2. The caller on the answering machine message says that at the time of the call, it is the morning of which day of the week?
(a) Monday.
(b) Saturday.
(c) Thursday.
(d) Tuesday.

3. How far is it from Larry's house to the house of his nearest neighbor?
(a) 8 miles.
(b) 100 yards.
(c) 1 mile.
(d) 3 miles.

4. Before his death, M and M had been known to local authorities as what type of criminal?
(a) A confidence trickster.
(b) A drug dealer.
(c) A bank robber.
(d) A money launderer.

5. What is the name of the motorist Silas stops on his way to the cabin in the woods where he and his mother Alice had lived?
(a) Tina Rutherford.
(b) Carl Ott.
(c) Wallace Stringfellow.
(d) Violet Henner.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the young woman with whom Larry had gone on a date just before her disappearance?

3. Who calls Silas on the phone during the moment he is shocked by one particular photograph in Larry's house?

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. In what year does Chapter 5 take place?

(see the answer key)

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