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

2. Why does the house seem quiet to David?
(a) His mother has gone to North Dakota.
(b) Marie is not playing music.
(c) His younger brother is at a friend's house.
(d) The pump wheel is not moving.

3. Where does David's family live at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Boise, Idaho.
(b) Missoula, Montana.
(c) Brentrock, Montana.
(d) Fargo, North Dakota.

4. 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) Marie's spirit may seek vengeance.
(c) The dead do not remember the living.
(d) Whoever killed Marie may be back.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one thing Marie spends much time and energy doing?

2. Why do David, Wesley, and Gail go to David's grandparents' home on Sunday?

3. What did Julian hope Gloria would do?

4. Under what circumstances is a coyote hard to find according to Marie?

5. Where would Gail prefer to live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does David tell Gail when she comes home for lunch, and what is Gail's response?

2. What does David want to ask his mother when the two are sent outside, and why does he not do so?

3. How does David know Wesley is going to investigate Frank?

4. Why are Gail and Wesley at odds with each other as they drive to Wesley's parents' home?

5. How does Gail compare the winds in Montana with the wind in North Dakota?

6. Why have Wesley and Gail not had more children?

7. What happens when David tries to intervene in Gail's questioning of Marie?

8. What does David notice about his house when he gets home and Marie is sleeping?

9. Who is Ollie Young Bear?

10. When David talks to Marie about her cough, what is she adamant about not doing?

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