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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. How old was Patrick when he died?
(a) Three months
(b) Six months
(c) Six weeks
(d) Eight days
2. Who bought the book for Helen that contained the culling song?
(a) Her husband
(b) She bought it herself
(c) Her mother-in-law
(d) She doesn't know
3. What does Carl say when Mona asks when he last "got laid?"
(a) He says he doesn't remember
(b) He says it was a week ago
(c) He doesn't answer
(d) He says it was twenty years earlier
4. What is it that's hanging around Oyster's neck?
(a) A dreamcatcher
(b) A Hopi medicine bag
(c) A magical amulet to deflect the culling song
(d) A locket
5. Which of the following is among the details Carl gives about the cab?
(a) That the driver is foreign
(b) That the seat has been slit
(c) That it stinks
(d) That it's grey inside
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the last person the Stuarts talked to on their cell phones?
2. When is it that the sound of the baby's crying usually begins?
3. What is the source of the light on the table in the bar when Carl meets Nash?
4. What is on the apron worn by the woman in the kitchen?
5. Who is the radio personality Carl kills?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Helen's real estate business based on?
2. What does Carl say about the sounds he hears from his apartment?
3. What is the Book of Shadows, what is another name for it and why are Carl, Mona and Helen looking for it?
4. What is the significance of the story about the nurse who killed so many people?
5. What does Carl say is the reason his series about sudden infant death syndrome is so compelling to readers, especially parents and grandparents?
6. What is the inverted pyramid?
7. Describe the telephone conversation Helen is having when she meets Carl for the first time.
8. Aside from the sudden infant death syndrome, what are the other stories Carl is supposed to be following up on?
9. What does Carl offer up as "credentials" that he's worthy of following this story and why does he give that information to Helen?
10. What are some of the myths about sudden infant death that Carl says have been disproved?
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