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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. Who is the Drug Enforcement Agency agent who meets with Abe regarding the drug deal?
(a) Don Williams.
(b) Dave Williams.
(c) Dick Willis.
(d) Don Willis.

2. The District Attorney tells Abe that Sam Polk could not have killed Eddie because __________________.
(a) He was at a party.
(b) He was out of the country.
(c) He was at a police fundraiser.
(d) He was at dinner with his wife.

3. Arturo Cruz says that Eddie's body was _____________ at Cruz' building.
(a) in Arturo's office.
(b) in the parking lot.
(c) in the bathroom.
(d) in the cafeteria.

4. What does Diz think Eddie Cochran was not capable of?
(a) Dealing drugs.
(b) Blackmail.
(c) Espionage.
(d) Murder.

5. Who identifies the knife that was used to murder Linda Polk?
(a) Sam.
(b) Diz.
(c) Alphonse.
(d) Nika.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Steven Cochran feel about his place in his family?

2. Which of the following does Sam NOT do after Linda's death?

3. What is the name of the small town Diz is summoned to in Chapter 16?

4. When does Fr. Cavanaugh say is the last time he met with Eddie Cochran?

5. Why does Sam Polk fail to show up for his meeting with Diz and Abe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What feeling does Dismas get that Eddie's death has not been related to a drug deal or trouble at work?

2. How is Steven beginning to recover and what is his relationship with his parents now?

3. What are the circumstances of Sam Polk's death?

4. Why do Linda Polk and Alphonse Page go to Sam's office to check the safe?

5. What surprises Abe when he meets Father Cavanaugh?

6. Why does Dismas go to the small town of Gonzalez?

7. What does Arturo Cruz tell Dismas about the night Eddie died and how can he prove that he did not kill him?

8. What personal pain does Dismas come to terms with in Chapter 25 and how does Jane respond?

9. Explain the irony of Sam's doing the drug deal to get more money to keep Nika.

10. What bit of information does Rose, the rectory housekeeper, find to be out of place when Father Cavanaugh talks with Abe?

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