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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Carl keep his mind occupied after leaving the office?
(a) He counts his steps
(b) He sings the culling song
(c) He plans his next story
(d) He imagines what his comments for Duncan's feature story

2. Why does Helen say she's never going to use her lipstick again after giving one woman a facial?
(a) She believes the woman had headlice
(b) She knows the woman will die and says it's just creepy
(c) She never shares makeup
(d) She believes the woman had ringworm

3. Who is paging Carl while he's talking to Helen?
(a) Duncan
(b) Mona
(c) Oyster
(d) Nash

4. What does Carl believe happened to the Stuarts?
(a) They died of natural causes
(b) Mona shot them
(c) Duncan repeated the song to them
(d) Helen sang them the culling song

5. What does the guy with sideburns say to the person on the cell phone?
(a) That he's at work
(b) That he's at the doctor's office
(c) That he's on a job site
(d) That he's at the bar

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carl say is standard procedure with regard to a parent's role in a baby's death?

2. What does Helen tell Rhonda she has to do to get past the grief?

3. What is the purpose of the fur coat smeared with ketchup?

4. What does Carl say he learned about the inverted pyramid in journalism school?

5. What is the newscast that Helen hears that she encourages the others to listen to?

(see the answer key)

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