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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Larry wakes up from his coma, he learns that Silas is the one who had taken what action?
(a) Saved Larry's life.
(b) Cooked Angie dinner.
(c) Killed Tina Rutherford.
(d) Shattered Larry's windshield.

2. What tactic does Larry use one day to scare off the intruder in the barn?
(a) He blares an air horn in his ear.
(b) He sets the barn on fire.
(c) He scares him with the zombie mask.
(d) He asks the sheriff to park his police car in front of Larry's barn.

3. Who does French consider the main suspect in Larry's shooting?
(a) Wallace Stringfellow.
(b) Carl.
(c) Larry.
(d) Cecil.

4. Who does Silas eventually decide had likely murdered Cindy?
(a) Alice.
(b) Carl.
(c) Ina.
(d) Cecil.

5. Whose criminal arrest had led to the urgent need for Silas and his mother's relocation?
(a) Silas's mother Alice.
(b) Silas's brother.
(c) Silas's uncle.
(d) The boyfriend of Silas's mother Alice.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what meal do Silas and Angie meet at a local diner at the start of Chapter 8?

2. In addition to being drunk on beer and high on marijuana, what third drug has Wallace Stringfellow added to the mix the night he was thrown out of Larry's house?

3. How many years before Tina Rutherford's disappearance had Larry started to notice signs of visitors to the barn?

4. Chapter 10 shifts back and forth throughout which time periods in the novel?

5. Larry recalls that after the disappearance of Tina Rutherford, who had visited him to say that he had "done something" (234)?

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