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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jake Blount say about Mr. Singer after he first meets him?

2. What happens when Willie goes to trial?

3. In July, where does Mr. Singer go to visit his friend?

4. What happens to Biff Brannon on October 8?

5. What doesn't Dr. Copeland eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had not changed about Mick Kelly on the evening of August 21, 1939?

2. What place did Mick Kelly favor during her long walks at night, and why?

3. After living without his friend for over a year, why did the death of the other man push Mister Singer to suicide?

4. What did Doctor Copeland talk to Mister Singer about when he visited in Part 2, Chapter 3?

5. What do Biff Brannon and his wife, Alice, argue about when they are first introduced to the story?

6. What was it about the message in red, written on a wall, that held Jake Blount's attention?

7. Why did Doctor Copeland have problems choosing the essay contest winner?

8. What does John Singer do when Antonapoulos started getting into trouble?

9. Who is Mick Kelly?

10. What does Jake Blount mean when he speaks about "us," saying he doesn't know how many of us there are in this country?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the character of Biff Brannon. Although he liked trying to figure out a good puzzle, he was also an enigma. What was going on inside him? Why did he start wearing his wife's perfume and using her hair conditioner after she died? Why does he consider it a compliment when Lucille tells him he'd make a good mother? Was there anything suspicious about his actions toward Mick Kelly?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate the composition written by the young boy and determine what were the problems Doctor Copeland had with the composition.

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate Jake Blount's statement, "The old cow grazes all over--in the south, the west, the north, and the east. But she's milked in just one place." What did he mean by this analogy?

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