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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. When Dickie Lockhart gets drunk and goes to find Charles Weeb in New Orleans, what is the date?
(a) December 15.
(b) February 15.
(c) January 15.
(d) March 15.

2. Where was Jim Tile born?
(a) Coral Gables, Florida.
(b) Wilamette, Florida.
(c) New Orleans, Louisiana.
(d) Harney, Florida.

3. Where did Skink see Bobby Clinch on the day that Bobby died?
(a) Lake Jessup.
(b) Lake Renault.
(c) Coon Bog.
(d) Morgan Slough.

4. How many men surprise Pickney as Pickney is looking at the console from Bobby's boat?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Two.

5. When Decker returns to his trailer after having dinner with Catherine, the phone is ringing. Who is calling Decker?
(a) Ozzie.
(b) Dennis.
(c) Skink.
(d) Jim.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Catherine sometimes call Decker instead of R.J.?

2. According to Bobby's wife, what is Bobby's most annoying habit?

3. Who tries to call Decker while Decker is out fishing with Skink?

4. When Pickney goes to the Clinch house to interview Clarisse, how many fishing trophies are on Bobby's bookshelf?

5. How long did Lanie know Bobby before Bobby died?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ott Pickney become the Davey Dillo mascot for the high school?

2. Years before the story takes place, what did Decker do to land him in Apalachee prison?

3. Years earlier, when Dennis Gault offered money to an undercover federal officer to kill Dickie Lockhart, why wasn't Dennis arrested?

4. Decker realizes that he's met Lanie Gault before Harney. Where did Decker originally meet Lanie Gault?

5. According to Weeb, why are round lakes fiscally irresponsible?

6. When Decker first sees the state trooper after arriving back in Harney, Decker notices something different about this trooper. What makes this trooper different from the others?

7. After Skink releases all but two of the bass that were stashed in fish cages the night before the bass tournament in New Orleans, Skink clips the first two spines on the dorsal fins of the remaining two bass. Why?

8. What surprises Skink when he spies Bobby on the day that Bobby dies?

9. Why does Bobby Clinch like to drive in the fog?

10. Why has Dennis Gault never rigged a bass tournament himself?

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