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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How had Larry come to have a date with Cindy?
(a) Larry had been set up with Cindy by his mother.
(b) Larry had asked Cindy for a date.
(c) Cindy had been set up with Larry by Silas.
(d) Cindy had asked Larry for a date.

2. 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 French's lap.
(c) Infant Silas on Larry's mother's lap.
(d) Infant Larry on Silas's mother's lap.

3. What type of weapon is the masked man holding when he confronts Larry?
(a) A knife.
(b) A razor blade.
(c) A tazer.
(d) A gun.

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

5. Who wins the right to keep Carl's rifle and for how long?
(a) Silas wins the rifle permanently.
(b) Silas wins the rifle temporarily.
(c) Larry wins the rifle temporarily.
(d) Silas wins the rifle permanently.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In what city had Silas spent his early childhood before moving south with his mother?

3. What object had been in Larry's hand when he had been found?

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

5. What does Silas discover underneath the place where his bed had used to be within the cabin in the woods?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss a moment in the text when Franklin causes the reader to wonder about Larry's role in the murders he is suspected by the community as having committed.

2. In what way, if any, does Carl finally address with Larry the subject of the fight over the rifle?

3. What had been the impetus for Silas and his mother's move out of south Chicago?

4. What is the symbolism of the zombie mask in Chapter 1?

5. In what setting and era does Chapter 5 take place?

6. What conclusions does Silas draw about the remains of a marijuana cigarette he finds in the grass at Larry's house?

7. What event occurs that keeps Silas from finding gunshot Larry himself and whom does he send instead?

8. What details does Franklin use in order to indicate to the reader just how small Cabot, Mississippi really is and how it functions as such?

9. What does Silas ultimately find underneath the flock of buzzards?

10. In Chapter 8, at the diner, Silas tells Angie a variety of "things he'd never said out loud" (141). Name several of these.

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