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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the police share with Bard?
(a) An anonymous letter.
(b) Coffee and doughnuts.
(c) Their riot equipment.
(d) A bulletproof vest.

2. What is in Mr. Patterson's truck?
(a) A wallet full of his cash, credit cards and driver's license.
(b) A dead dog.
(c) Two thousand dollars he was taking to the convicts.
(d) A piece of paper with the tag number of the getaway car.

3. How does Griffin exit his hideout?
(a) With his hands behind his back.
(b) With his one hand inside his jacket.
(c) With his hands on his hips.
(d) With his hands in the air.

4. What dismays Ralphie's teacher?
(a) Ralphie's home's disorder and the liquor bottle on the sofa.
(b) That Ralphie gets angry when his teacher points out that he is late.
(c) That Ralphie refuses to write the sentence 100 times.
(d) That Ralphie faints when his teacher asks him if he's alright.

5. What does Dan believe will happen if Robish is allowed back into the house?
(a) Ralphie will try to attack Robish again.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He will burn the house down.
(d) It makes the Hilliards accessories to murder.

6. What does the person want?
(a) A check for garbage collection.
(b) To ask about any suspicious people in the neighborhood.
(c) To sell a vacuum cleaner.
(d) To see if Dan is home.

7. Where does Griffin tell the caller to send the money?
(a) No where, the caller is supposed to meet Griffin with the money.
(b) A specified address.
(c) General delivery in Pittsburgh.
(d) To Mexico.

8. Who tells Bard that hitting Griffin is inappropriate behavior?
(a) Carson.
(b) Winston.
(c) A CIA agent.
(d) Bard's supervisor.

9. What has the police department be ordered to do?
(a) Hand out mace and billy clubs to all the men in the town.
(b) Evacuate the neighborhoods.
(c) Canvas the neighborhoods.
(d) Blockade all roads leading out of town.

10. What does Dan tell the criminals as he is leaving?
(a) That they better not touch his guns again.
(b) That he will give them 10 thousand dollars to leave this minute.
(c) That the cops the criminals they are there.
(d) That he will hurt them if they hurt his family.

11. How does Griffin view Dan?
(a) As a mean gangster type.
(b) As a wimp.
(c) He likens Dan to his own father with his domineering ways and strict rules.
(d) As a menace to Griffin's plans.

12. What does Ralphie's teacher do about Ralphie?
(a) Asks him if he feels alright.
(b) Goes to visit the Hilliard's home.
(c) Reprimands him for being tardy.
(d) Has him write 100 times "I must write with better penmanship."

13. Besides the license number of the getaway car, what else is in Mr. Patterson's car?
(a) Three hundred dollars.
(b) Two empty whiskey bottles.
(c) Checks from his morning collections.
(d) A handgun.

14. What is Cindy doing?
(a) Talking to Chuck on the phone.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Talking to her parents.
(d) Watching Ralphie sleep.

15. What does Bard wish he had done to Griffin?
(a) Killed him in the groin.
(b) Maim him.
(c) Pistol whipped him.
(d) Kill him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is communicated in a letter received by the police?

2. To what does Eleanor tend?

3. Why is Dan outraged?

4. What is Ralphie's teacher's name?

5. What helps the detectives retrace Mr. Patterson's steps earlier in the day?

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