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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the store in which Dave buys a newspaper smell like?
(a) Wine, whiskey, and beer.
(b) Bananas, coffee, and cheese.
(c) Shrimp, oysters, and other fish.
(d) Coconut, pineapple, and mango.

2. In Chapter One, it is said that the gambler's greatest desire would do what?
(a) Stop us from gambling.
(b) Make us rich.
(c) Drive us insane.
(d) Make us want more.

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

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

5. What is myth number two?
(a) Warren Harding was part African American.
(b) John Calvin was the inventor of Southern Myth.
(c) Johnny Cash did time in Folsom Prison.
(d) There is a Nazi submarine off Grand Island.

6. Who says, "I haven't had my rabies shots," when Murphy offers his hamburger?
(a) Bobby Joe.
(b) Fitzpatrick.
(c) Dave.
(d) Andres.

7. What color are Annie's eyes?
(a) Green.
(b) Blue.
(c) Brown.
(d) Gray.

8. Who's father was a milkman in the Garden District?
(a) Didi Gee.
(b) Cletus.
(c) Fitzpatrick.
(d) Dave.

9. Who says, "Julio Segura is real garbage"?
(a) Sam Fitzpatrick.
(b) Dave.
(c) Didi Gee.
(d) Jimmie.

10. What work had Dave's father done on Marsh Island?
(a) He was unemployed.
(b) He worked on oil rigs.
(c) He was a bouree dealer.
(d) He worked as a trapper.

11. According to Dave, where does Didi Gee have lunch every Tuesday?
(a) Remoulade.
(b) El Gato Negro.
(c) Cafe Giovanni.
(d) Jimmy the Gent's.

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

13. Who owns a winter home in Hallendale, Florida?
(a) Jimmie.
(b) Cletus.
(c) Didi Gee.
(d) Segura.

14. To whom does Dave initially go for information about finding Bobby Joe Starkweather?
(a) Didi Gee.
(b) Segura's driver.
(c) Wesley Potts.
(d) Jimmie.

15. What is Dave first answer when Annie asks him what is wrong in Chapter Six?
(a) Grief over Fitzpatrick's death.
(b) Suspension.
(c) Hangover.
(d) Malaria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name do the three men in Chapter Three call Dave?

2. Who says that Bobby Joe is better off as sausage links?

3. To whom is Cletus' wife sending their money?

4. According to Dave, possession is how many years in Louisiana?

5. Whom does Johnny describe as a "mummy wrapped in black rags"?

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