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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Peter tell Cowney a guard found that is evidence in the investigation?
(a) A bullet.
(b) A shoe.
(c) A piece of hair.
(d) A purple ribbon.

2. Why does a siren start in Chapter Nineteen?
(a) There has been a theft.
(b) A dog has bitten someone.
(c) A soldier has been shot.
(d) A diplomat's daughter is missing.

3. Who comes to Lishie's house after she dies that Cowney has never met before?
(a) Jon Craig.
(b) Sol.
(c) Lee.
(d) His Aunt Reyna.

4. Who does Cowney attempt to speak to, but never actually does, in Chapter Fifteen?
(a) Peter Franks.
(b) Japanese men who are staying at the inn.
(c) Bud.
(d) Andrea.

5. Who does Jonathan Craig tell Cowney will meet them in Cherokee to get Cowney there?
(a) Lee.
(b) Jones.
(c) Lishie.
(d) Bud.

6. What is Essie hoping Andrea will ask her?
(a) To go to the movies with him.
(b) To go to Italy with him.
(c) To cook for him.
(d) To go to college with him.

7. Who does Jonathan Craig tell Cowney is implicating him in the girl's disappearance in Chapter Twenty-One?
(a) Lee.
(b) Sol.
(c) Peter Franks.
(d) Carol.

8. What happens in Cowney's dream about Lishie in Chapter Sixteen?
(a) Lishie asks him to marry Essie.
(b) Lishie asks him to bury her.
(c) Lishie asks him to take care of Bud.
(d) Lishie shares recipe advice with him.

9. What dirty and undesirable job does Lee ask Sol and Cowney to do in Chapter Fifteen?
(a) Painting.
(b) Waxing.
(c) Driving fence posts in.
(d) Plumbing.

10. Which president's portrait is in the room where they are keeping Cowney in Chapter Twenty?
(a) Calvin Coolidge.
(b) Franklin Roosevelt.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

11. Why does Cowney say he cannot talk to Bud after Lishie's funeral?
(a) He has turned Bud into the police.
(b) He does not ever want to talk to Bud again.
(c) He has to get Essie back to Asheville.
(d) He is too upset.

12. What does Cowney ask the colonel if he can do in Chapter Twenty that the colonel reluctantly agrees to?
(a) Buy a sandwich.
(b) Make a phone call.
(c) Talk to Lee.
(d) Talk to Essie.

13. Where does Cowney tell the authorities the bone is?
(a) In room 447.
(b) At Bud's house.
(c) In his own room.
(d) At Lishie's house.

14. In Chapter Eighteen, who sits by Cowney at Lishie's funeral?
(a) Essie.
(b) Tsa Tsi.
(c) Sol.
(d) Lee.

15. Why does Bud think Cowney was in a fight in Chapter Twenty-One?
(a) He has patch over one eye.
(b) Because the cheerwine has made his mouth look red.
(c) He has bruises.
(d) He seems to have a broken finger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cowney leave at the inn in Chapter Twenty-One that is valuable to him?

2. What does Jonathan Craig tell Cowney some white soldiers were afraid the Indian soldiers might do?

3. What does Jonathan Craig tell Cowney that Cowney has to choose between?

4. Why does Jonathan Craig tell Cowney he has a cooler of food in his car?

5. What does Essie tell Cowney she has done that betrays him in Chapter Nineteen?

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