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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. After having tea with Ann, Kinsey goes to her motel room. What does she discover?
(a) That someone turned on the water in her room and flooded it.
(b) That her air conditioner has broken.
(c) That the cleaning woman spilled cleaning fluid all over the carpet.
(d) That someone has broken into her room.

2. After talking to Kinsey, Tap leaves to go to the bathroom. What happens after that?
(a) Kinsey waits but he never returns.
(b) There is an explosion in a back room.
(c) Kinsey has a drink or two too many.
(d) Royce shows up.

3. Bailey was picked up in Los Angeles not long before Kinsey was hired. Why?
(a) He had assaulted a policeman.
(b) He had a lot of unpaid traffic violations.
(c) He had adopted the same name as another man wanted by the police.
(d) A neighbor had reported him as suspicious.

4. What does Shana tell Kinsey about her relationship with Jean just before she died?
(a) They were close but Jean had taken to sneaking out of their apartment.
(b) It was close but Jean preferred staying with her aunt.
(c) They had become distant because of Jean's lifestyle.
(d) That Shana had been against Jean leaving town for college.

5. When Kinsey sees Shana for the first time, why is she surprised?
(a) She looks a lot like Kinsey.
(b) She is very beautiful.
(c) That she looks young for her age.
(d) She looks exactly like Jean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time did the eyewitness say Bailey and Jean were seen at the beach the night she died?

2. After leaving the spa for the first time, where does Kinsey go?

3. After the men escaped from the courtroom, what happened to them?

4. The evening of her angry confrontation with Royce, Kinsey has tea with Ann. What does Ann tell her about her childhood?

5. When Kinsey asks the wife of the owner of the spa about Jean Timberlake, what is her response?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Royce Fowler particularly interested in proving his son's innocence with Kinsey's help?

2. What were the circumstances of Bailey Fowler's arrest in Los Angeles a few weeks before Kinsey is hired?

3. In Chapter 10, Kinsey visits with one of Jean's old classmates. Who was it and what did she find out?

4. After Royce is taken to the hospital, Kinsey has tea with Ann and finds out about her unhappy childhood. When Kinsey goes to her room for the night, what does she discover? How is the situation handled?

5. Kinsey heads to San Luis Obispo. Who does she go to see there? How is she received at his office? What surprising detail does he tell her at the end of their visit?

6. After Kinsey returns home from her first meeting with Royce Fowler, what does she do to find out more about Bailey Fowler and Jean Timberlake? What does she learn about Bailey?

7. Where does the Fowler family live? List the three family members who live there and briefly describe each one.

8. When Kinsey goes to the Eucalyptus Mineral Springs Hotel spa for the first time, what does she observe there? Who owns the hotel?

9. Where does Kinsey live and what are her current living conditions?

10. Bailey calls Kinsey in her new motel room. What do they talk about? What happens at the end of the conversation?

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