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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. At what age had Larry started to notice signs of an intruder within the barn?
(a) 42.
(b) 19.
(c) 12.
(d) 31.

2. When Larry wakes up from his coma, he realizes that he is a suspect in what crimes?
(a) The rape and murder of Cindy Walker.
(b) The murders of Cindy Walker and Tina Rutherford.
(c) The murder of Tina Rutherford and his own gunshot wound.
(d) The robbery of the Chabot Bank.

3. When Larry discovers who the intruder is in his barn, what is NOT a quality of the intruder?
(a) He has blond hair.
(b) He is young.
(c) He has a dark beard.
(d) He is skinny.

4. Larry considers that there are only four people alive who know about what topic?
(a) About the trust fund associated with Larry's father Carl.
(b) About the cabin were Tina's body had been found.
(c) About the biological relationship between Silas and Larry.
(d) About the ultimate fate of Cindy.

5. How many years before Tina Rutherford's disappearance had Larry started to notice signs of visitors to the barn?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 19.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what road does Wallace Stringfellow live?

2. What trait does Silas finally decide in Chapter 10 is the thing his mother had always told him was "missing out of" (155) him?

3. Who had been the first person to shatter Silas's illusion that his relationship with Cindy was a secret no one knew about?

4. What is the name of the nursing home in which Larry's mother Ina lives?

5. What name does Silas call the dog tied up outside Wallace Stringfellow's house as he gets out of his Jeep?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Silas's decision to take care of Larry's chickens?

2. What traits in a person is Larry willing to overlook due to his own severe loneliness?

3. What information does Silas reveal when he interrupts the interrogation of Larry at the hospital?

4. What is the significance of the narrator's comment that Larry "was tired of buying mailboxes" (231)?

5. Under what pretense does Silas gain access beyond the entryway of Wallace Stringfellow's house when he comes to question him?

6. In what way is the theme of persecution featured within Larry's experiences in the hospital?

7. With what aspect of his life is Larry completely fed up at the start of Chapter 13?

8. Describe an example of Franklin's use of allusion within Chapter 14.

9. Describe the event involving Larry, a then-unknown-to-Larry Wallace Stringfellow, and the zombie mask.

10. What information does Larry decide he wants to tell French while he is still in the hospital?

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