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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. How is Nirdlinger's death reported?
(a) As an accident
(b) As a mob hit
(c) As a murder
(d) As a suicide

2. What does Walter ask Keyes?
(a) If Lola has visited yet
(b) If he is paralyzed
(c) If they got the woman and the bullet
(d) If he is going to live

3. What information does Keyes share with Walter?
(a) The Nirdlinger case is still under criminal investigation
(b) Phyllis' accomplice has shown up five nights in a week
(c) The insurance company is going to pay the Nirdlinger claim in full
(d) Walter has been put on suspension

4. What consumes Walter's thoughts after Keyes leaves?
(a) If he will get his sight back
(b) Whether he will ever walk again
(c) How Lola will find out the truth about him
(d) Whether Phyllis will try to kill him

5. What does Walter tell Keyes when he fears for Lola's safety?
(a) That Lola killed her mother
(b) That Lola was going to implicate Phyllis in her father's murder
(c) That he killed Nirdlinger
(d) That Lola planned the whole thing

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Walter's true feelings about Phyllis now?

2. What does Lola tell Walter?

3. Who was apprehended for trying to get Walter out of Mr. Sanchetti's car?

4. What does Walter do with the item kept in the file?

5. Walter thinks that he has been made a ___________ by Phyllis.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the symbolism of the moon at the end of the story?

2. What does Lola tell Walter about Sachetti that makes him suspicious?

3. What is Walter's main concern after he tells Keyes about killing Nirdlinger?

4. What surprising information does Walter get from reading the newspaper account of his accident?

5. What transpires when Keyes returns to Walter's hospital room later that night?

6. What is it that finally makes Walter admit to murdering Nirdlinger?

7. How did Sachetti come to be at the site of Walter's shooting that night?

8. What precipitates Walter's plan to kill Phyllis?

9. What happens after Walter wakes up in the hospital?

10. Describe Lola's demeanor when she visits Walter at his office a week later.

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