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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 provides instructions to the hundreds of volunteers gathered at the park ten days after Ben's murder?
(a) Neal.
(b) Duffy.
(c) Andy.
(d) Jonathan.

2. How old had Neal been when he joined the District Attorney's office?
(a) 21.
(b) 29.
(c) 23.
(d) 34.

3. Who accompanies Jacob to school the day it reopens after Ben's murder?
(a) Andy, Laurie, and Neal.
(b) Andy and Laurie.
(c) Just Andy.
(d) Just Laurie.

4. What is NOT a descriptor Andy uses to describe Neal?
(a) Thinning hair.
(b) Short.
(c) Tall.
(d) A potbelly.

5. How does Andy say he feels about men of his father's generation?
(a) He loathes them.
(b) He feels a childish attraction toward them as father figures.
(c) He feels a protective affinity for them.
(d) He fears them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a characteristic named by Andy when he tells the reader why he had liked Neal upon their first meeting?

2. Whose idea is it to hire a psychiatric expert to assess Jacob?

3. At what time in their lives had Laurie and Andy met?

4. What does Andy name as the trick to being a successful prosecutor?

5. Where does Patz say he had been the morning of Ben's murder?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the significance of the chapter title "Mindfuck" (34).

2. What qualities of Jonathan Klein's does Andy find reassuring?

3. How is the theme of deception depicted within Andy's conversation with Sarah in Chapter 5?

4. How does William Landay use the changed relationship between Andy and Duffy to indicate Andy's profound sense of isolation following Jacob's indictment for murder?

5. How does the author use Jacob's relationship with the telephone to indicate Jacob's lack of comfort with intimacy?

6. What is the symbolism of the look of distaste on Laurie's face when Andy takes her hand in the courthouse elevator?

7. What is the clue that points most markedly to Jacob's involvement in Ben's murder?

8. What job does Andy hold at the time of Ben's murder, and how is he involved in the homicide response?

9. What qualities of Andy's character are revealed in the moment when Jacob learns about his grandfather's and great-grandfather's violent histories?

10. Discuss the ways in which Laurie changes as a result of Jacob's indictment.

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