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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can't Dan promise to not do anything risky?
(a) Because of the love he has for his family.
(b) Because he doesn't know the future.
(c) Because he does not believe Griffin intends to let them live.
(d) Because he still has plenty of bullets.

2. What does Eleanor beg of Dan?
(a) To talk to Griffin about keeping Cindy safe.
(b) Not to do anything risky.
(c) To escape and go get the police.
(d) To try to get the children out of the house.

3. What does Bard order?
(a) Helicoptor an swat team support.
(b) An end to police patrols.
(c) A long-range sniper rifle.
(d) Four more FBI agents to the scene.

4. How does Dan act when he arrives home?
(a) Lascivious.
(b) Drunk.
(c) Rude.
(d) Amiable.

5. Where are Dan and Cindy to go the next morning?
(a) To the bank to withdraw cash.
(b) To the fast food joint to buy breakfast.
(c) Off to work as usual.
(d) Nowhere.

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

7. What does Ralphie's teacher notice?
(a) That Ralphie's hand writing that day is very shaky.
(b) That Ralphie does not talk in class at all which is unusual.
(c) Ralphie's absence from class.
(d) That Ralphie came in late to class that day.

8. Why do tensions begin to flare?
(a) Griffin loses control of his cohorts.
(b) Robish makes another advance towards Cindy.
(c) Griffin hits Ralphie lightly on the arm.
(d) Griffin orders Eleanor to cook dinner.

9. What is Ralphie's teacher's name?
(a) Mrs. Sooner.
(b) Mr. Jones.
(c) Miss Turtle.
(d) Mrs. Swift.

10. Why does Dan not want Robish in the house?
(a) Because Robish has killed Mr. Patterson.
(b) Because Robish is uncontrollable when he's drunk.
(c) Because Robish smells badly.
(d) Because Robish is sadistic.

11. What else is about to cause Hank to snap?
(a) The helicoptor zooming close to the house.
(b) Chuck's cruising up and down the street.
(c) The police lookout across the street.
(d) The press standing down the street.

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

13. What is Ralphie doing?
(a) Staying home from school.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Waiting for the school bus.
(d) Playing nintendo.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bard wish he had done to Griffin?

2. Who jumps on the back of Mr. Patterson's truck?

3. What does Robish refuse to do?

4. About what is Bard incensed?

5. What causes Hank to become angry?

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