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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Helen react when the person in #48 apologizes?
(a) With credulity.
(b) With stubbornness.
(c) With relief.
(d) With tenderness.

2. What happens to the hearse carrying the body from the train station?
(a) It breaks down.
(b) It keeps overheating.
(c) It crashes into a truck.
(d) It gets a flat tire.

3. Whose words are italicized in the book?
(a) Milton's father's.
(b) Peyton's.
(c) Helen's.
(d) Helen's mother's.

4. What about Dolly now irritates Milton?
(a) Her clothes.
(b) Her submissiveness.
(c) Her voice.
(d) Her forgetfulness.

5. Who had bound and gagged Maudie?
(a) Patricia and Buster.
(b) Peyton and Boomer.
(c) Pamela and Bulldog.
(d) Peyton and Buster.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the train at the beginning of Chapter 2?

2. Who is the Loftis family's cook?

3. In what month does the body arrive at the train station?

4. What is the main industry in Port Warwick?

5. With whom has Milton been having an affair for many years?

(see the answer key)

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