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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 40-44.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Carl say he learned about the inverted pyramid in journalism school?
(a) That you keep the most important fact for the end
(b) That you begin with the most important fact
(c) That you tell the story in chronological order
(d) That you begin at the beginning of the story

2. What page is the book "Poems and Rhymes" open to in two of the homes where there was a crib death?
(a) Page 27
(b) Page 321
(c) Page 148
(d) Page 82

3. What is Mona working on when Carl returns to the real estate office?
(a) Her nails
(b) A book
(c) A miniature house
(d) Her resume

4. What happens to the security guards at the Book Barn?
(a) Helen and Oyster don't know what happened to them
(b) There weren't any on duty
(c) They were killed
(d) They left the building for a few minutes

5. What has Helen done in order to commit suicide?
(a) Slashed her wrists
(b) Swallowed jewels and drain cleaner
(c) Swallowed a lot of pills
(d) Said the culling song to herself in the mirror

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carl do the morning his wife died?

2. Where does the man say he's going to go in two days?

3. What does Helen do after she and Oyster get into a fight over the page containing the culling song?

4. When does Carl realize that his wife is dead?

5. Who is the last person the Stuarts talked to on their cell phones?

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