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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Blaze escape Oliver?
(a) Blaze slips out of her blue robe that Oliver has ahold of, runs into her apartment, and locks the door.
(b) Blaze jumps off the steps onto Oliver and starts to beat him up. He then flees.
(c) Blaze keeps silent, as she watches Oliver murder Dawn.
(d) Blaze punches Oliver, and he runs away.

2. What is Blaze’s response when Anne tells Blaze that if Dawn had been in Blaze’s position, she would have done the right thing and given information?
(a) Dawn would have sold out Blaze, her mother, and her own child for drugs.
(b) Dawn only cared for her mother and her baby, no one else.
(c) Dawn would have done what was right.
(d) Dawn may have acted to protect her baby, but she would not do that for anyone else.

3. What do both Anne and Letch assume when they learn Blaze’s body was found?
(a) Simon murdered her.
(b) Ambrose was the murderer.
(c) She committed suicide.
(d) Oliver was the murderer.

4. What is the reason Letch gives Westbrook for why OJ used a knife rather than a gun?
(a) A knife is a much cheaper weapon to obtain and to carry.
(b) A knife is harder to trace to its owner.
(c) A knife wound is more painful than a bullet wound.
(d) A knife is the most phallic of killing tool.

5. What is Blaze Duvall’s real name?
(a) Mary Ellen Singleton.
(b) Laura Ingalls Wilder.
(c) Jane Kelly.
(d) Mary Ellen Oberlander.

6. Blaze can tell that Miles is nervous about a night with her and is compensating by doing what?
(a) Whispering sweet nothings in her ear.
(b) Drinking heavily and feeling up Blaze’s thigh.
(c) Telling all the other sailors he is going to get with Blaze.
(d) Being extra sweet.

7. In Chapter 10, from where does Blaze call Anne Zorn?
(a) Her cell phone.
(b) Her hotel room phone.
(c) Two different pay phones.
(d) Her apartment phone.

8. When the homicide team gathers, what do they wonder about the location of Blaze’s body?
(a) They find it to be very typical.
(b) They wonder how she got there.
(c) They wonder why she chose that spot to jump.
(d) They find it odd.

9. At 7:10 p.m. on Wednesday evening, why does Blaze arrive at Ambrose’s home?
(a) To give him a massage.
(b) To go on a romantic dinner.
(c) To ask for more money.
(d) To pick up the drugs.

10. What had happened to Blaze right before she met Dawn?
(a) She had lost her job.
(b) Her husband had died.
(c) She had left a bad marriage.
(d) She had been assaulted.

11. What does Anne tell Boggs was found on Dawn Coyote’s body?
(a) Scratch marks.
(b) Tattoos.
(c) His business card.
(d) Needle marks.

12. What is the name Leeds gives to Simon Cooke?
(a) Snaggle Tooth.
(b) Wharf Rat.
(c) Beach Bum.
(d) Simon the Crook.

13. After checking Taylor's home, Anne comes back grinning with what in her hand?
(a) A bloody piece of Dawn's clothing.
(b) A written confession.
(c) A bloody washcloth.
(d) A bloody knife.

14. For how much money does Blaze ask Ambrose for the one real and four fictitious tapes?
(a) $5,000 each.
(b) $1,000 each.
(c) $15,000 total.
(d) $20,000 total.

15. When Ambrose finally returns home, the regatta race in on ESPN. What happens?
(a) Black Magic gets second in the final race.
(b) The Aussies win the Louis Vuitton Cup.
(c) Black Magic wins the Louis Vuitton Cup, as expected.
(d) The Japanese win the Louis Vuitton Cup.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ambrose returns home, he is afraid to open the trunk of his car and see whose eyes?

2. What is Anne Zorn’s nickname?

3. What unusual piece of clothing does Ambrose wear to the yacht-club brunch?

4. What excuse does Blaze give to leave the bar after the last dose of medication is gone?

5. What had Anne wanted to join in the 1970s?

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