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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who discovers Ben's dead body?
(a) Officer Duffy.
(b) The school principal.
(c) Andy.
(d) A jogger.

2. When he is arrested, Jacob will only say one phrase over and over. What is it?
(a) "I want to talk to a lawyer."
(b) "I refuse to say a word."
(c) "I am innocent."
(d) "I want my dad."

3. What is NOT listed as a reason that Jacob hardly ever uses the telephone?
(a) He considers phone calls archaic.
(b) He considers phone calls awkward.
(c) He considers phone calls inefficient.
(d) He considers phone calls too intimate.

4. Andy characterizes himself as a person who has been exposed to what?
(a) Life's hard knocks.
(b) Ugliness.
(c) The real world.
(d) Violence.

5. Laurie says that living with Andy and Jacob is like living with a couple of what?
(a) Brick walls.
(b) Plants.
(c) Con artists.
(d) Tombstones.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does Andy go to retrieve from an upstairs bedroom in Ben's family's house?

2. Jonathan tells which person that he or she is the ultimate decision-maker when it comes to the murder case?

3. When Laurie picks up the phone during dinner and experiences a fright, how many days are left until Jacob's trial?

4. What guarantee does Andy provide to Laurie the day before Jacob's school reopens?

5. Laurie says that from what age in Jacob's life, other kids had started to turn up hurt around Jacob?

(see the answer key)

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