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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of children are referenced within the novel's epigraph?
(a) Southern.
(b) Northern.
(c) Western.
(d) Eastern.

2. What position does Silas's girlfriend Angie hold?
(a) Emergency Medical Technician.
(b) Bookkeeper.
(c) Dental hygienist.
(d) Bartender.

3. What is featured in the shocking photograph that Silas finds during his search of Larry's house?
(a) Infant Silas on Larry's mother's lap.
(b) Infant Larry on Silas's mother's lap.
(c) Infant Cindy on Cecil's lap.
(d) Infant Silas on French's lap.

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

5. What object does Silas like to throw?
(a) A baseball.
(b) A boomerang.
(c) A racquetball.
(d) A football.

6. What is Larry's favorite genre of fiction?
(a) Mystery.
(b) Romance.
(c) Science Fiction.
(d) Horror.

7. How old is Larry in the present day?
(a) 26.
(b) 31.
(c) 41.
(d) 50.

8. The vines and weeds encroaching upon the cabin in the woods are said to resemble what type of creature?
(a) Snails.
(b) Eels.
(c) Snake.
(d) Worms.

9. From what location does Silas gather items such as broken glass, molds made from tire tracks, and a piece of a marijuana cigarette?
(a) Angie's house.
(b) The cabin in the woods.
(c) Larry's property.
(d) Wallace Stringfellow's house.

10. In what part of his body had Larry receives a gunshot wound?
(a) His leg.
(b) His head.
(c) His chest.
(d) His arm.

11. In what state does the narrative take place?
(a) California.
(b) Texas.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Mississippi.

12. What action does Silas take before beginning the day's investigation at the start of Chapter 6?
(a) He eats breakfast at the diner.
(b) He sweeps the floor of Town Hall.
(c) He picks Miss Voncille up from the hairdresser.
(d) He picks up his dry cleaning.

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

14. 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) Tuesday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Monday.

15. What object had been in Larry's hand when he had been found?
(a) A knife.
(b) A set of keys.
(c) A clothes hanger.
(d) A pistol.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose criminal arrest had led to the urgent need for Silas and his mother's relocation?

2. From what disease is Larry's mother Ina suffering?

3. Before his death, M and M had been known to local authorities as what type of criminal?

4. Who calls Silas in Chapter 4 to tell him that Larry is alive?

5. In what month does the novel begin?

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