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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cowney say will clear with the morning fog in Chapter Fifteen?
(a) The hangover.
(b) Heartbreak.
(c) Anger.
(d) The smoke.

2. What story does Cowney tell Essie in Chapter Fourteen that he exaggerates?
(a) About hunting with Bud.
(b) About capturing Edgar.
(c) About fighting with Lee.
(d) About seeing the bear with Lishie.

3. Why is the colonel angry with Cowney when he comes back from looking for the bone in Chapter Twenty?
(a) There is more than one bone.
(b) The bone is definitely a human bone.
(c) The bone is sticky and poisonous.
(d) The bone is not where Cowney told him it was.

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

5. What does Essie tell Cowney she has done that betrays him in Chapter Nineteen?
(a) Told the authorities he had a gun.
(b) Told the authorities he had assaulted her.
(c) Told the authorities he had stolen money
(d) Told the authorities he had a bone and was trying to sell bear bladders to some of the guests at the inn.

6. Why does Jonathan Craig tell Cowney he has a cooler of food in his car?
(a) He had been planning to go to the shelter to share food.
(b) He had been planning to go golfing.
(c) He had been planning to go fishing.
(d) He had been planning to visit his daughter.

7. What does Cowney feel he has been launched into when the Colonel starts questioning him in Chapter Nineteen?
(a) A nightmare.
(b) A class on ethics.
(c) A book.
(d) An alternative universe.

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

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

10. Who is Essie romantically involved in in Chapter Fourteen?
(a) Lee.
(b) Sol.
(c) Peter.
(d) Andrea.

11. Why does Essie say she is probably not going to college?
(a) She does not think she is smart enough.
(b) She hates reading and writing.
(c) She does not think it is possible for her.
(d) She does not really want to go.

12. Who comes to question Cowney in Chapter Nineteen?
(a) The Colonel.
(b) Sol.
(c) Essie.
(d) Robert James.

13. What does Essie do in Chapter Fourteen that embarrasses her and surprises Cowney?
(a) Farts.
(b) Eats with her hands.
(c) Falls down the stairs.
(d) Burps.

14. Who tells Cowney that Lishie has passed away?
(a) Myrtle.
(b) Bud.
(c) Essie.
(d) Cowney's father.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peter show Cowney from his personal life in Chapter Fifteen?

2. Which guard interrupts Sol harassing Cowney in Chapter 14?

3. What two books does Cowney pack in his suitcase to to back to Asheville in Chapter Eighteen?

4. What song that Lishie sings in Chapter Thirteen does Cowney love?

5. What is Cowney holding when the person finds him outside on the inn's property in Chapter Nineteen?

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