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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. What does Coben compare the players to when they enter the court?
(a) Billboards.
(b) Losers.
(c) Dough boys.
(d) Commercials.

2. How are Win and Valerie connected?
(a) They lived near each other in the city.
(b) They went to school together.
(c) They were best friends in elementary school.
(d) Their families were members of the same club.

3. What information does Gerard give Myron concerning Roger Quincy?
(a) He is in custody, but denies the murder.
(b) He ran and has not returned since.
(c) He was at the tennis tournament the day of the murder.
(d) He is in hiding, but the police know where he is.

4. What does Duane say about his connection with Valerie?
(a) They went to dinner a few times.
(b) They met once.
(c) He only heard of her, never met her.
(d) He watched her play tennis often.

5. What information does Lisa at NYNEX relay to Win?
(a) Valerie used a pay phone to call home.
(b) Valerie used a pay phone to call Myron.
(c) Valerie was using a pay phone to call Duane.
(d) Valerie used a pay phone to call Kenneth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Duane lie to the police about knowing Valerie?

2. What is Detective Roland's appearance like as Myron meets up with him at Duane's?

3. Where does Wanda find Myron to speak with him about Duane the second time?

4. What kind of help was Valerie looking for from Roger on the day of her death?

5. What does Wanda tell Myron on her second visit to him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plans do Myron and Win make about the investigation.

2. What occurs between Myron and Jessica in the chapter that he plays basketball with the neighborhood kids?

3. Where does the opening scene of the novel take place and why?

4. How does Duane behave while being questioned by Detective Roland and what is the reason for the interrogation?

5. From Chapter 13-18, what questions about the murder have not yet been been answered?

6. Why does Wanda show up at Myron's home?

7. During Myron's lunch with Sheriff Courter, what does Myron learn of the murderers of Alexander Cross?

8. What transpires at the dinner meeting between Myron and a possible client, Eddie?

9. What information does Myron discover about Curtis Yeller in the newspaper clippings that contradicts what his mother told Myron? What does Myron think about the contradiction?

10. What is the relationship like between Jessica and Myron?

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