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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. Who hands Myron a mysterious manilla envelope at the beginning of Chapter Forty?
(a) Esperanza.
(b) One of the Dragons' towel boys.
(c) Audrey Wilson.
(d) Win.

2. What does the blackmailer demand that Myron leave in his car before exiting it?
(a) His gun.
(b) Audrey.
(c) His knife.
(d) His tape recorder.

3. What does Esperanza think is the link between Carla and the blackmail of Greg Downing in New York?
(a) The New Jersey Dragons.
(b) Emily Downing.
(c) The bank robbery in Tucson.
(d) The Raven Brigade.

4. At the beginning of Chapter Thirty Seven, what does Myron tell Calvin about Clip Arnstein?
(a) That Clip went to Carla's the night of her murder.
(b) That Clip is selling the Dragons.
(c) That Clip was blackmailing Greg.
(d) That Clip is in love with Emily Downing.

5. Why does Myron tell Audrey he wants her to accompany him to the meeting with the blackmailer?
(a) To photograph the blackmailer.
(b) To witness and record what happens.
(c) To identify the blackmailer.
(d) To summon the police if the blackmailer gets violent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Myron's caller at the end of Chapter Twenty Seven claim to have?

2. What does Dimonte call Myron to tell him at the end of Chapter Thirty?

3. Why does Marty say he made the videotape?

4. Why does Calvin say Carla contacted him and Clip?

5. In Chapter Twenty Nine, what does Dimonte tell Myron has hit the morning edition of the newspaper?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Myron find out about Fiona White's involvement with Greg Downing?

2. What facts in Chapter Twenty Two make Esperanza think Clip Arnstein knows more about Greg Downing's disappearance and Liz Gorman's murder than he has revealed?

3. Why does say she killed Carla?

4. What does Esperanza think brought Carla/Sally to New York?

5. Why does Marty Felder, Greg's agent, offer Myron a job?

6. In Chapter Twenty Four, what does Clip Arnstein admit to knowing about Sally/Carla and her relationship with Greg Downing?

7. 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?

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

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

10. What in Chapter Twenty Nine lets Myron know that Esperanza is trying to be nice to him after his bad game the previous day?

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