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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is being announced on the radio when Carl meets up with Nash?
(a) The weather
(b) Class schedules for a community college
(c) Obituaries
(d) School lunch menus

2. When is it that the sound of the baby's crying usually begins?
(a) A couple of months after moving in
(b) At least a week after moving in
(c) A couple of nights after moving in
(d) The first night after moving in

3. What does Nash say he's done to make sure that the police will know what he knows?
(a) Had an interview with the police
(b) Has recorded their conversation
(c) Wrote a story for the newspaper
(d) Left a letter that includes the details with a friend

4. What is Nash eating when Carl meets him in the bar?
(a) Celery
(b) Chips and dip
(c) A burger
(d) Onion dip

5. Who bought the book for Helen that contained the culling song?
(a) Her husband
(b) She bought it herself
(c) She doesn't know
(d) Her mother-in-law

6. What is near the bowl of oranges?
(a) A bowl of holy water
(b) A brass statue
(c) A tube of lipstick
(d) A candle

7. What does Carl say he wants to tell every family that has lost a child?
(a) That they are not to blame
(b) That they are to blame
(c) To take up a hobby
(d) To see a counselor

8. What does Helen say Carl needs to do if he wants to learn to control this power?
(a) Attend a Wiccan meeting
(b) Practice patience
(c) Take anger management classes
(d) Nothing

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

10. 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 tell the story in chronological order
(c) That you begin at the beginning of the story
(d) That you begin with the most important fact

11. 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

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

13. What does Carl discover after saying the culling poem in the shower?
(a) That it's suddenly silent in the rest of the building
(b) That everyone has turned off their televisions and music
(c) That he was probably heard in the apartment next door
(d) That there's a vent that carries sound to other apartments

14. What is the name realtors give to the houses that are haunted?
(a) Distressed houses
(b) Haunted houses
(c) Hopeless houses
(d) Chained houses

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the face of the barbiturate suicide appear?

2. What page is the book "Poems and Rhymes" open to in two of the homes where there was a crib death?

3. Where does it seem the baby's cries are coming from?

4. What does Nash set fire to in the bar?

5. Who is the radio personality Carl kills?

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