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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What illness does David have while staying with Frank and Gloria one year?
(a) Chickenpox.
(b) Measles.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) Tonsillitis.

2. Where was Frank just before returning to Brentrock?
(a) On a long trip.
(b) At medical school.
(c) In the military.
(d) His parents' home.

3. Why does Gail want to stay home?
(a) She does not want to face Frank and Gloria.
(b) She is feeling ill.
(c) She doesn’t think it’s a good idea to leave Marie alone.
(d) She does not want to argue with her mother-in-law about David's schooling.

4. What does Gail decide to do about Marie?
(a) Wait another day or two.
(b) Send her home.
(c) Ask a tribal shaman to come to the home.
(d) Call Frank.

5. What happens when David goes over to the table where Wesley and Ollie are speaking in the bowling alley?
(a) They invite David to join the conversation.
(b) They tell David about Frank.
(c) They keep talking.
(d) They stop talking.

6. What does Wesley question David about after David tells him about seeing Frank?
(a) The exact time David witnessed Frank leaving the house.
(b) If Marie seemed more ill when David saw here before she died.
(c) If anyone was with Frank.
(d) If David is angry with Frank.

7. What does David think Wesley believes about Frank?
(a) Frank is guilty of molesting Indian females.
(b) Frank is lying about something.
(c) Frank drinks too much.
(d) Frank believes himself superior to Wesley.

8. Who is Marie Little Soldier?
(a) A neighbor to David's family.
(b) The Shaman of the local Indian tribe.
(c) David's grandparents' housekeeper.
(d) The country doctor’s nurse.

9. What does David think when he sees his grandfather waiting on the porch?
(a) Julian seems old.
(b) Julian seems as though he knows nothing yet about Frank.
(c) Julian will never allow anything to happen to Frank.
(d) Julian seems like a stranger.

10. Under what circumstances is a coyote hard to find according to Marie?
(a) When it's mating season.
(b) When the coyote has pups
(c) When the sun is high overhead.
(d) When you are looking for the coyote.

11. How does Wesley say Frank will pay for his misdeeds?
(a) When he is sent to prison.
(b) When he loses his medical practice.
(c) When Frank meets God.
(d) When he looks his victims in the eye.

12. What does David think when Marie spends a great deal of time in her room?
(a) She is ill.
(b) She is tired from caring for him.
(c) He has upset her.
(d) She is hiding from her ex-boyfriend.

13. What has David's grandmother told him that makes it difficult for David to sleep the night of Marie's death?
(a) A dead person's spirit remains in the area for a while.
(b) Whoever killed Marie may be back.
(c) Marie's spirit may seek vengeance.
(d) The dead do not remember the living.

14. Who is at David's home when he gets back from school on Monday?
(a) His best friend's father.
(b) His grandparents.
(c) The deputy sheriff.
(d) The undertaker.

15. What does Julian ask about Frank and Gloria?
(a) If Frank is in danger.
(b) If Wesley wants to have more children.
(c) If Wesley plans on resigning.
(d) Why Frank can't give them another grandchild.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Len say prompted his drinking this time?

2. Why don't Gail and Wesley have more children?

3. Where is Wesley seated at dinner?

4. Who is Nutty?

5. Where does David's family live at the beginning of the novel?

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