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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Carl really meeting Mona?
(a) He's working on a story
(b) He met her on an online dating site
(c) He believes she is a witch
(d) He wants to buy a house

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

3. What color are the candles Mona places on the flat rock on the floor?
(a) Gold and silver
(b) Black and blue
(c) Orange and yellow
(d) Purple and white

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

5. What is the purpose of the fur coat smeared with ketchup?
(a) It's bait
(b) It's a ritual of the Wiccans
(c) It's not really a fur coat
(d) Spilling the ketchup was an accident

6. What is the headline on the newspaper Nash hands Carl?
(a) Newspaper reporter sought in deaths
(b) Culling song revealed
(c) Group looks for mystery book
(d) Seven dead in mystery plague

7. Where does it seem the baby's cries are coming from?
(a) In the room that was a nursery
(b) In the attic
(c) In a wall of the master bedroom
(d) Under the house

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

9. When does Carl decide he'll call the police about his role in Duncan's death?
(a) After he calls Helen
(b) After the body is discovered
(c) He doesn't
(d) After it's apparent that Duncan isn't at work

10. What does Helen have in her hand when she's talking with Mona?
(a) A glass of wine
(b) A statue
(c) A tube of lipstick
(d) An orange

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

12. Where is Henderson when Carl gets back to work?
(a) He's in the art department
(b) He hasn't arrived
(c) He's at Carl's desk
(d) He's at his desk

13. What does Carl say will be used for art with the story he's writing about sudden infant death syndrome?
(a) Photos of babies who were happy but now are dead
(b) Photos of funerals
(c) Charts outlining the mortality rate and potential causes
(d) Photos of empty cribs

14. What is the image the owners usually see reflected in the water in the tub?
(a) A pig
(b) A wrinkled face
(c) The Grim Reaper
(d) A baby

15. What kind of house does Helen say she and her husband lived in when their son, Patrick, died?
(a) A large mansion
(b) A trailer
(c) A small brick house
(d) A seaside cottage

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carl say is the only pattern in crib deaths?

2. What does Carl discover about his ability to remember the culling song?

3. What is the difference between night witches and day witches?

4. What does the guy with sideburns say to the person on the cell phone?

5. What flies out of the mouth of the officer who is killed by Carl singing the culling song?

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