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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way does Silas respond when he hears the answering machine message?
(a) He returns the call immediately.
(b) He returns the call the next day.
(c) He tells French about the message.
(d) He does not return the call.

2. What kind of weather is said to have occurred the night before the novel's first events?
(a) A cold snap.
(b) A tornado.
(c) A quick thaw.
(d) A storm.

3. What object does Larry come home to find "waiting" in his house in the first sentence of the novel?
(a) A mirage.
(b) A monster.
(c) A beast.
(d) A ghost.

4. For what meal do Silas and Angie meet at a local diner at the start of Chapter 8?
(a) Dinner.
(b) A midnight snack.
(c) Breakfast.
(d) Lunch.

5. What action ends the friendship between Silas and Larry in their boyhood?
(a) Larry hides Silas's rifle and will not give it back.
(b) Silas finds out a secret about Larry's mother.
(c) Silas uses a racial slur against Larry.
(d) Larry uses a racial slur against Silas.

6. From what disease is Larry's mother Ina suffering?
(a) Morbid obesity.
(b) Tourette's.
(c) Alzheimer's.
(d) Schizophrenia.

7. Where does Larry go after he finishes the chore assigned to him by his father Carl?
(a) To the cabin.
(b) To the arcade.
(c) To the swimming hole.
(d) To the soda shop.

8. To whom had Larry sold some of his land in the past, according to documents Silas finds in Larry's house?
(a) The Rutherfords.
(b) The Joneses.
(c) The Johnsons.
(d) The Walkers.

9. What event does Silas reflect upon as he searches Larry's shop in Chapter 6?
(a) His graduation from high school.
(b) His mother's funeral.
(c) His relationship with Angie.
(d) His graduation from college.

10. What law enforcement position does Silas hold in town?
(a) Solicitor.
(b) Constable.
(c) Magistrate.
(d) Bail bondsman.

11. Part Two , Chapter 6 depicts the time of Silas's life when he had been what age?
(a) 21.
(b) 16.
(c) 13.
(d) 11.

12. What does the narration say would be "okay with Larry" (7) at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Death.
(b) Dinner.
(c) A career change.
(d) Sleep.

13. When Silas and his mother Alice had been forced to move, which direction had she told Silas they would need to go in order to end up with people she knew?
(a) West.
(b) South.
(c) North.
(d) East.

14. What is the name of the young woman with whom Larry had gone on a date just before her disappearance?
(a) Riley.
(b) Jane.
(c) Sally.
(d) Cindy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. What name does Carl call Larry during the contest over the rifle?

4. What is the outcome of Larry's encounter with the masked man?

5. In what part of his body had Larry receives a gunshot wound?

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