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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through After.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What first alerts Ed to the fact that there may be holes in their story?
(a) A dream he has during the night.
(b) The questions a local lawman asks Bobby.
(c) The realization that Lewis may talk while under an anesthetic.
(d) The way people look at him, as if he's a criminal.

2. What does Bobby do that makes Ed feel relieved?
(a) He gets a new job and gets married.
(b) He leaves the area.
(c) He writes down what happened to him, then burns the writing.
(d) He takes lessons in self-defense.

3. After the three men are out of the river, after their canoes overturned, what does Lewis tell the others?
(a) That the second attacker is behind them on the river.
(b) That the canoes are still useable.
(c) That he will get them out of this somehow.
(d) That Drew was shot and is dead.

4. What does Ed notice in the middle of the night as he rests in the crevice of the cliff he's climbing?
(a) Slippery moss covering the rocks he must climb.
(b) How the blackness makes everything disappear from view.
(c) An owl circling like a portent of death.
(d) The river and the view.

5. How do Ed and Bobby patch up the holes in their story?
(a) They say they lied the day before.
(b) They say they lost the canoe in the first rapids.
(c) They say Lewis was hurt trying to save Drew.
(d) They agree to stick with their original story no matter what.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Drew's widow tell Ed he should do after he tells her Drew is dead?

2. What one good thing had Holley done that remains at the graphics business?

3. What memory does the sight of a red-and-white drive-in reawaken in Ed as he and Lewis drive past it?

4. What do Drew and Bobby do while Ed and Lewis talk to the Griner brothers?

5. What is the argument about when the sheriff and Deputy Queen visit Ed the evening after the second day's dredging?

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