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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Helen tell the librarian she needs to know who checked out the book with the culling song?
(a) She says it's dangerous
(b) She says the woman might kill someone
(c) She says she has to destroy the book
(d) She says her daughter left a family photo in the book

2. What does Helen say is Carl's name when she introduces herself as Brenda Williams?
(a) Robert
(b) James
(c) Carl
(d) William

3. What is in the package Carl picks up on his way home from work?
(a) Newspapers
(b) Pieces for a miniature he's building
(c) new shoes
(d) Supper

4. What does Carl say Henderson dropped out of?
(a) Life
(b) Journalism school
(c) Law school
(d) Beauty college

5. Where had the Stuart's eaten dinner the night before their deaths?
(a) At home
(b) Chez Chef
(c) Grandby's
(d) Taco Bell

6. What is the difference between night witches and day witches?
(a) Day witches nurture and night witches are evil
(b) Day witches draw power from the sun and night witches from the moon
(c) Day witches cannot cast spells at night and night witches cannot cast in the daylight
(d) Day witches aren't afraid of sunlight and night witches are

7. What is next to the radio on Mona's desk?
(a) A police scanner
(b) A magazine
(c) A make-up mirror
(d) A miniature house

8. Who is Helen talking to when she meets Carl Streator for the first time?
(a) The previous owners of the house
(b) Her mother
(c) Oyster
(d) Mona

9. What flies out of the mouth of the officer who is killed by Carl singing the culling song?
(a) The tip of his tongue
(b) His dentures
(c) A piece of gum
(d) Spit

10. What does Helen say she wants as payment for the assassination?
(a) A specific diamond
(b) A half million dollars
(c) Nothing
(d) A government appointment

11. Where does Carl and Helen meet for the second time?
(a) A secluded park
(b) A house that's for sale
(c) Helen's office
(d) An antique store

12. What does the man in the trench coat do to make Carl angry?
(a) Throws a newspaper on the ground
(b) Refuses to move out of the way
(c) Shoves him and calls him a name
(d) Yells at an old woman

13. 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 148
(c) Page 82
(d) Page 321

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

15. What color is the suit Helen wears to the Wiccan meeting?
(a) Grass green
(b) Powder blue
(c) Honey gold
(d) Full moon yellow

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the radio personality Carl kills?

2. What does the "flying virgin" write across the New Mexican sky?

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

4. What does Carl use to loosen the page with the culling song from its binder?

5. What is the setting for the story Carl reads about the 1983 case in which the nurse's aide kills a patient?

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