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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Dave in the week after Annie is buried?
(a) Deeply depressed.
(b) Calm and resolute.
(c) Murderously angry.
(d) In a daze.

2. What happens when Dave is walking around his property one evening?
(a) He encounters a woman who says she is Alafair's aunt.
(b) He is bound and tortured for information.
(c) He falls into a ditch while drunk.
(d) A man attempts to murder him by shooting him with a high-power, scoped rifle.

3. What does Dave believe?
(a) He is the only one who suspects a large-scale drug ring.
(b) He should have stayed completely out of the situation to begin with.
(c) He and Annie should move somewhere in the far west.
(d) He can again withdraw into a peaceful life.

4. What bothers Dave a great deal about his job?
(a) Arresting people who commit victimless crimes.
(b) Thinking of Annie everytime he sees a shotgun.
(c) The paperwork.
(d) Being confined to one small patrol area.

5. What do Dave and the police do?
(a) Nothing; Dave does not call the police.
(b) Talk to the neighbors.
(c) Search Romero's apartment for clues.
(d) Leave Romero's body for the detectives and leave.

6. How is Annie killed?
(a) Her car explodes.
(b) Her brakes were tampered with and she drives into the bay.
(c) She is kidnapped and later shot.
(d) By two men with shotguns.

7. What does Dave do to some strippers at Keats' bar?
(a) Bribes them to quit.
(b) Sets them up for a drug bust by planting some coccaine.
(c) Intimidates them into leaving.
(d) Arrests them.

8. Where does Dave apply for a job?
(a) Back with the New Orleans police department.
(b) At the local sheriff's office.
(c) With the FBI.
(d) With the INS people to be able to track the killers.

9. Who goes fishing with Dave?
(a) Dautrieve.
(b) Robin.
(c) Alafair.
(d) Batist.

10. Why does Romero call Dave?
(a) To tell him he will never catch him.
(b) To ask Dave to cooperate with the authorities.
(c) He does not call Dave directly.
(d) To ask for information.

11. Why does Dave call Dautrieve?
(a) To tell him they are moving.
(b) To gain information.
(c) To report he is still being harrassed.
(d) To ask if Dautrieve will help him and Annie adopt Alafair.

12. Of what does Dautrieve warn Dave?
(a) That Keats has taken a contract out on Dave.
(b) That some of the police detectives know about Alafair.
(c) To stay out of the case as the INS men could be trouble.
(d) That Keats has died and Dave is a suspect.

13. Who is sitting on Dave's porch a few days later?
(a) Claudette.
(b) Batist.
(c) Alafair.
(d) Robin.

14. What does Dave ask of Annie?
(a) To take Alafair and go into hiding in Canada.
(b) To allow him to continue the investigation.
(c) To take Alafair and go into hiding in Europe.
(d) To visit her hometown for a few weeks.

15. Why does Dave go to New Orleans?
(a) He wants to find a permanent home for Alafair.
(b) He wants to access police records there.
(c) He is assigned a two-day stint there.
(d) He goes there to drink so he is not seen in New Iberia drinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dave fire up through the ceiling?

2. What is found later that Dave goes to investigate?

3. What does Dave see when he is wandering around outside?

4. What does Dave do before returning to New Iberia?

5. What does Dave contemplate?

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