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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the topic of the song that Carl reads to Duncan?
(a) The stars coming out at night
(b) Flowers blooming on a creek bank
(c) Children going to sleep
(d) Animals going to sleep

2. What is the first class action lawsuit Carl sees in the newspaper?
(a) Spiders hatching out of furniture
(b) Beer that causes blindness
(c) Televisions that explode
(d) Spoiled meat served in restaurants

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

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

5. Where is the baby sitter when Carl goes to cover his second crib death story?
(a) In the bedroom
(b) In the ambulance
(c) Outside
(d) At the hospital

Short Answer Questions

1. What is on the table in Helen's real estate office?

2. What is the headline on the newspaper Nash hands Carl?

3. What does Carl say when Mona asks when he last "got laid?"

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

5. What does Carl say is the only fact known about sudden infant death syndrome?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the story about the nurse who killed so many people?

2. What is the Mirror Book and who has one on the trip?

3. List the details Carl learns about the man in the trench coat that Carl killed.

4. What does Helen say was the reaction of her husband after the death of their son?

5. Briefly describe three of three people Carl kills on the way back to his office.

6. What is Carl's purpose for his first meeting with Helen?

7. What does Helen say about the origin of the culling poem?

8. What does Carl offer up as "credentials" that he's worthy of following this story and why does he give that information to Helen?

9. List at least four details Carl has for his first dead baby story.

10. What is the inverted pyramid?

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