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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. For what reason does Jonathan Klein show up to the police department?
(a) To speak to his client, Andy.
(b) To speak to his client, Patz.
(c) To speak to his client, Matthew.
(d) To speak to his client, Jacob.

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

3. How many stories does the Middlesex County Courthouse have?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 13.
(d) 16.

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

5. What object does Andy go to retrieve from an upstairs bedroom in Ben's family's house?
(a) Ben's journal.
(b) His briefcase.
(c) His coat.
(d) Ben's hairbrush.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word is Jacob repeating in his sleep when Andy comes to check on him?

2. Where is Andy during the search of the park ten days after Ben's murder?

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

4. One morning while on a run, Andy alters his route of late and goes to whose apartment?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the meaning of the epigraph for Part One of the novel.

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

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

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

5. What major realization about life does Andy describe arriving at as a result of meeting Laurie in college?

6. What action does Dan Rifkin take against Andy once Jacob comes under suspicion?

7. Discuss one statement that Andy makes under oath and then names as a deception to the reader.

8. In relation to Ben's murder, when does Andy testify in front of the grand jury?

9. What is Jacob's explanation for the most damning clue in the murder case?

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

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