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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of animal does Silas hope to shoot with the weapon Larry lends him?
(a) Rabbits.
(b) Pheasants.
(c) Elk.
(d) Squirrels.

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

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

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

5. To whom did Larry's animals used to belong?
(a) His cousin.
(b) His father.
(c) Silas.
(d) His mother.

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

7. 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?
(a) A friend.
(b) A father.
(c) A job.
(d) A girlfriend.

8. With what object is the window held up in the office Silas shares with Miss Voncille?
(a) A brick.
(b) A glass bottle.
(c) A globe.
(d) A book.

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

10. What does Silas discover underneath the place where his bed had used to be within the cabin in the woods?
(a) A necklace.
(b) A grave.
(c) A wig.
(d) A mask.

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

12. Larry's mother often prays that Larry will find what?
(a) A path.
(b) A purpose.
(c) A role model.
(d) A friend.

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

14. What is the outcome of Larry's encounter with the masked man?
(a) Larry is stabbed.
(b) The masked man is shot.
(c) The masked man is tazed.
(d) Larry is shot.

15. In which community had M and M lived before his death?
(a) Meridian.
(b) Arlos.
(c) Chabot.
(d) Amos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What law enforcement position does Silas hold in town?

2. In what town does the novel take place?

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

4. What position does Silas's girlfriend Angie hold?

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

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