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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of work does Cletus do before partnering with Dave in homicide?
(a) Misdemeanors.
(b) Sex crimes.
(c) Burglaries.
(d) Vice.

2. What does Annie Ballard do for a living?
(a) She is a cello player.
(b) She is a lawyer.
(c) She is a secretary.
(d) She is a social worker.

3. Who or what are Papa Celestin and Sharky Bonnano that the author mentions in Chapter One?
(a) Pornographic theatres.
(b) Restaurants.
(c) Mobsters.
(d) Dixieland Bands.

4. What are the pro-capital punishment people singing in Chapter One?
(a) "Glow, Little Glow Worm."
(b) "Candle in the Wind."
(c) "In My Time of Dying."
(d) "This Bud's for You."

5. Who is referred to as a heavy-metal cat?
(a) Bobby Jo.
(b) Didi Gee.
(c) Julio Segura.
(d) Dave Robicheaux.

Short Answer Questions

1. What newspaper does Dave buy in Chapter One?

2. What does the store in which Dave buys a newspaper smell like?

3. In Chapter Two, who says, "put his head in a toilet"?

4. Whom does Dave question at headquarters about the dead girl?

5. Who claims to have a son at West Point?

(see the answer key)

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