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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. Where should the route that Raleigh and Mingo are driving, in Part 2, Chapter 16, take them?
(a) To Atlanta.
(b) To Chicago.
(c) To New Orleans.
(d) To the Carolina coast.

2. Who is skinny-dipping in the community pool in Part 1, Chapter 3?
(a) Aura and Mingo.
(b) Raleigh and Aura.
(c) Vera and Mingo.
(d) Vera and Raleigh.

3. Who is the janitor in Raleigh's office building?
(a) Bill Pierson.
(b) Bill Kaiser.
(c) Bill Jimson.
(d) Bill Jenkins.

4. In Part 1, Chapter 5, who is having an affair with Lizzie Joyner?
(a) Vera.
(b) Raleigh.
(c) Pierce.
(d) Mingo.

5. On which route do Raleigh and Mingo think they are driving, in Part 2, Chapter 16?
(a) Highway 55.
(b) Route 50.
(c) Interstate 20.
(d) Route 66.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what Raleigh learns in Part 1, Chapter 2, where does Earley want Raleigh to meet him?

2. How do Marines help Raleigh and Mingo when they get lost while driving in Part 2, Chapter 16?

3. Who has driven a Cadillac to a service station in Part 1, Chapter 12, looking for a missing car?

4. Who is with Raleigh when the story begins?

5. What is Caroline doing when Raleigh arrives in Part 1:Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how Raleigh ends up with a second pistol belonging to Mingo.

2. What note does Raleigh find in Chapter 5, and what is the truth of the situation surrounding that note?

3. Who is Jimmy Clay, and what role does he have in explaining Earley's disappearance after leaving the hospital?

4. Explain the first compromising situation in which Mingo mistakenly assumes his wife Vera is having an affair with Raleigh.

5. After listening to the cassette tape, what delivery does Raleigh get from his father, and how does it arrive?

6. How does Raleigh steal the bust from the public library?

7. What is Raleigh's relationship with Mingo, as the story begins in Chapter 1?

8. Where does Raleigh go to visit Flonnie? What does he buy her, and why?

9. Why is Earley in the hospital at the beginning of the story, and how does he leave?

10. What is the misunderstanding that Raleigh's janitor has in Chapter 5?

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