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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Cletus doing when Dave stops by his house for a visit?
(a) Watching TV.
(b) Tying some flies.
(c) Taking a nap.
(d) Getting drunk.

2. What word does Dave associate with bureaucrats?
(a) Paper-pushers.
(b) Reason.
(c) Affluent.
(d) Mouthpieces.

3. In what type of car does Andres arrive at Dave's houseboat?
(a) Limo.
(b) Van.
(c) Cadillac.
(d) Taxi.

4. According to Dave, who has "a real dose of the yellow-dog blues"?
(a) Guidry.
(b) The General.
(c) Cletus.
(d) Dave.

5. Who bails Dave out of jail?
(a) Jimmie.
(b) Annie.
(c) Cletus.
(d) Captain Guidry.

6. Where is the location of Jimmie's shooting?
(a) One of his restaurants.
(b) At the Cafe du Monde.
(c) Public restroom.
(d) Jackson Square.

7. When Dave tails Cletus, where does he see Cletus go both at the beginning and end of his shift?
(a) The bus station.
(b) A bar.
(c) To pick up a prostitute.
(d) To a warehouse.

8. Who places Dave in a holding cell?
(a) Cletus.
(b) Phil.
(c) Sergeant Motley.
(d) Captain Guidry.

9. During surgery, the polyps inside Didi Gee were as large as what?
(a) Didi Gee's fist.
(b) Quarters.
(c) Baseballs.
(d) Ducks' eggs.

10. How does the surgeon describe his surgery on Jimmie in Chapter Twelve?
(a) Snipping-and-sewing operation.
(b) All I can do.
(c) Spit-and-polish procedure.
(d) Dusting-and-cleaning situation.

11. What does Cletus wear to the station on his day off in Chapter Nine"
(a) Jeans and an Izod shirt.
(b) A Mardi Grass shirt and sweat pants.
(c) A cut-off LSU shirt and Budweiser shorts.
(d) A suit.

12. Whom does Dave first contact about bringing in one of the men who killed Fitzpatrick?
(a) Nate Baxter.
(b) Cletus.
(c) Sergeant Motley.
(d) Captain Guidry.

13. Dave realizes that his brother had been trying to trace initials on his chest on that day in the hospital after Jimmie's first surgery. Whose initials did Jimmie trace?
(a) Didi Gee.
(b) Annie Ballard.
(c) Jerome Abshire.
(d) Cletus Purcel.

14. When Dave visits Jimmie in the hospital after his trip to Biloxi, it appears to Dave that Jimmie's hands and face are painted with what?
(a) Death.
(b) Snow.
(c) Wet ash.
(d) Sand.

15. What does Jaime always wear on his head?
(a) A New York Yankees baseball cap.
(b) A stocking cap.
(c) A bandana.
(d) A fedora.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Dave make friends in the hospital where his brother is?

2. Who reveals that Philip Murphy is a morphine addict?

3. Didi Gee wants Philip Murphy out of the way because he is "screwing up some things" in what location?

4. With what is Dave charged?

5. In what type of business is Didi Gee's office?

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