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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. Which of the following statements does not describe Marty Felder?
(a) Thinning gray hair plastered down.
(b) In his mid-fifties.
(c) Movie star handsome.
(d) Wears a bright orange tie and orange socks.

2. What does Audrey discover to her dismay about the bullets in the gun she seizes from Myron's car?
(a) They fall out of the gun because the gun is broken.
(b) Her fingerprints are on them since she loaded the gun.
(c) They're blanks.
(d) They are toy bullets and the gun is a toy.

3. Who calls the B Man Orville?
(a) Win.
(b) Myron.
(c) The B Man's girlfriend.
(d) The B Man's two thugs.

4. What does Dimonte say Sidney Bowman spends most of his spare time doing?
(a) Helping the homeless.
(b) Chasing women.
(c) Teaching his college classes.
(d) Watching the New Jersey Dragons play.

5. How much money does the woman want Emily to pay her to keep silent about the secret she supposedly has about Greg?
(a) Ten thousand dollars.
(b) Eight thousand dollars.
(c) Fifty thousand dollars.
(d) One hundred thousand dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Clip Arnstein's response when Myron tells him someone cleaned up the blood in Greg's basement?

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

3. Where do the B Man and two of his thugs show up to find Myron in Chapter Twenty Three?

4. Who is Jason Blair?

5. From whom is the envelope handed to Myron at the beginning of Chapter Forty?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Myron's meeting with Marty Felder in Chapter Twenty Eight solve any of the puzzles he's investigating or does it deepen the mysteries surrounding Greg Downing?

2. Why does Myron take Audrey with him to meet the blackmailer?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who does Cole Whiteman tell Myron he saw coming in and out of Carla's apartment on the day of her murder and what convinces Whiteman that Greg Downing is not Carla's killer?

10. 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?

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