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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 does Myron take from Emily Downing's closet and confront Emily with in Chapter Thirty Two?
(a) A coat that matches the one in the video of Carla's killer.
(b) A gun.
(c) A box of stolen money.
(d) A compromising video of Greg with his mistress.

2. How does Emily respond when Greg accuses her of planting the blood and the baseball bat at Greg's house?
(a) She claims Clip Arnstein asked her to plant the items.
(b) She admits to killing Carla herself.
(c) She denies doing it.
(d) She says she did it because she knows Greg killed Carla.

3. What is the blackmailer wearing over his head when he meets Myron?
(a) A plastic garbage bag with eye holes cut out of it.
(b) A ski mask.
(c) A paper sack with eye holes cut out of it.
(d) A plastic Mardi Gras mask.

4. What does Dimonte think the object the killer is carrying in the videotape contains?
(a) A gun.
(b) Evidence the killer uses to blackmail people.
(c) The baseball bat used to kill Carla.
(d) Makeup and a disguise.

5. What is the crowd's reaction to Myron's playing in Chapter Twenty Six?
(a) They start buying increased numbers of game tickets.
(b) They boo Myron.
(c) They demand Myron be cut from the team at once.
(d) They cheer and applaud Myron.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who turns out to be Carla's real killer?

2. What do Dimonte and Myron find behind the dryer at Greg Downing's house in Chapter Twenty One?

3. What does Esperanza think is the link between Carla and the blackmail of Greg Downing in New York?

4. To what classic television cop show duo do Myron and Dimonte liken themselves?

5. Which of the following statements does not describe Marty Felder?

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. How does Cole Whiteman describe the murder that the Raven Brigade has been in hiding for since the Sixties?

3. How does Myron think Leon White's wife, Fiona, might be involved with Greg Downing?

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

5. Describe Myron's playing in the Dragons game in Chapter Twenty Six and how the crowd reacts to it.

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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