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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 videotape does Myron ask Marty to show him during his visit to Marty's office?
(a) A video of Greg Downing's most famous plays as a Dragon.
(b) A compromising video of Emily Downing.
(c) A video of the Dragons' most famous games.
(d) A compromising video about Greg Downing's gambling.

2. Why does Myron want to find out if Leon White's wife Fiona was a September centerfold?
(a) A woman using the screen name Sepbabe emails Greg.
(b) Sepbabe signs her emails with the initial F.
(c) He thinks he saw her in the September issue of a magazine.
(d) Their emails indicate Greg and Sepbabe are in a romantic relationship.

3. How does Audrey's birthdate identify her as the mystery woman whose clothes and toiletries were found in Greg's home and therefore the woman with whom Greg has been romantically involved?
(a) Greg bought an engagement ring on Audrey's birthday.
(b) The clothes and toiletries were birthday gifts from Greg.
(c) Her birthdate is Greg's answering machine code.
(d) Greg filed for divorce from Emily on Audrey's birthday.

4. Who reveals that he has been disguised as the blackmailer?
(a) Dimonte.
(b) Win.
(c) Calvin Johnson.
(d) Clip Arnstein.

5. What makes Jason Blair happy after he discusses his discontent with Esperanza?
(a) Esperanza gets him more money & a signing bonus.
(b) Esperanza finally lets him speak with Myron.
(c) Esperanza finally agrees to go out with him.
(d) Myron promises to fire Esperanza.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Audrey discover to her dismay about the bullets in the gun she seizes from Myron's car?

2. How does Myron respond when Dimonte asks if Myron recognizes the killer in the video?

3. When Esperanza gets a list of long distance calls made from the pay phone from which Carla called Greg, whose number does Esperanza find beside the listing for a twelve minute call made four days before Greg's disappearance?

4. How did Greg Downing tell the B Man he was going to get the money to pay his gambling debts?

5. On the way to the arena at the beginning of Chapter Four, to what kind of music do Win and Myron listen?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Esperanza become concerned about Myron when she receives the list of people whose safe-deposit boxes were robbed in Tucson?

2. What happens when the B Man visits Myron at his office in Chapter Twenty-Three?

3. Why does Greg hide out at TC Collins' house?

4. Is there any evidence in the novel that Myron might still have feelings for Emily Downing?

5. When Myron tells Win that Jessica has asked him to move in with her, why doesn't Win respond immediately?

6. What does the bat found behind Greg Downing's dryer and the fingerprints found at Carla's apartment indicate about Downing's possible involvement in her murder?

7. What evidence seems to indicate Emily Downing as Carla's killer and how does Emily explain this evidence to Myron in Chapter Thirty One?

8. What shocking secret is revealed on the tape Cole Whiteman sends Myron?

9. Why does Win go to Arizona at the end of the novel?

10. What does Clip's statement in Chapter Twenty Four about Greg Downing having learned his lesson about violence years before foreshadow?

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