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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 is Squidface?
(a) A stuffed animal Holly's brother is always fighting Holly over.
(b) A new movie Holly wants to see.
(c) The name Holly has given her mother's boyfriend.
(d) A new toy Holly wants.

2. What does Frank's mother want to do while Frank is at the pub?
(a) Join him at the pub to console him.
(b) Make her husband go and talk to Frank.
(c) Appeal to the police not to consider Frank as a suspect.
(d) Go and offer condolences to the Daly's.

3. What might Rosie be having a difficult time doing in the Prologue?
(a) Slipping away unnoticed.
(b) Deciding whether to go to college.
(c) Deciding whether to get married.
(d) Boarding the bus since she is short for the fare.

4. Where is Rosie's suitcase found?
(a) Up the chimney in number 212.
(b) In the attic of number 33.
(c) In a subway locker.
(d) Behind the fireplace in number 16.

5. What is one theory Frank has about Rosie?
(a) That Rosie was killed by some drug dealers.
(b) That she decided Frank came from a family that was too crazy to marry him.
(c) That she was interested in someone else.
(d) That she may have decided to leave but not with Frank.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the neighborhood try to do in the abandoned house soon after Frank left?

2. To what does Olivia agree?

3. Why is there not going to be anyone to help with Frank's father?

4. What is Mandy's status in the present time when Frank goes to visit her?

5. Who does Frank call about what he finds in the abandoned house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Frank think about when asked why he became a cop?

2. What does Shay say about his job and his future plans?

3. Who does Frank visit and what does he learn?

4. What thoughts go through Frank's mind about Rosie's suitcase?

5. What does the Technical Bureau find in the basement at number 16?

6. What is the outcome of the short vignette?

7. What does Holly say to her father about Dermot?

8. What does Frank say about his family in regard to Rosie leaving him?

9. What does Frank's family speculate about the suitcase, and how does Shay sum up the speculation?

10. What does the reader learn about Frank in the opening to Chapter 1?

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