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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. How does Dave survive Fitzpatrick's fate?
(a) His Cajun blood.
(b) He is in the driver's seat.
(c) He is conscious.
(d) He is thrown from the car.

2. Who says, "Most people just roll over when violence comes into their lives"?
(a) Captain Guidry.
(b) Man in the raincoat.
(c) Dave.
(d) Annie.

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

4. What does Dave do with the two guns from the deputies who stop him?
(a) He tosses the guns in their car.
(b) He throws the guns into the lake.
(c) He keeps the guns.
(d) He throws the guns into the woods.

5. How many men jump Dave on his houseboat in Chapter Five?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What kind of gun is Cletus using in Chapter Four?

5. What is Dave drinking while he waits for Fitzpatrick to pick him up in Chapter Five?

Short Essay Questions

1. What concoction does Bobby Joe feed to Dave in Chapter Seven, and why?

2. About what does Dave bait Murphy in the beginning of Chapter Seven that elicits a reaction from Murphy?

3. What types of pistols does Dave own?

4. What happens when Dave is fishing on Bayou Lafourche in Cataouatche Parish?

5. Why does Johnny, a criminal, want to give Dave, a cop, information? What information does he give him?

6. What happens to Dave after he has been given the cocktail?

7. Why is Fitzpatrick angry with Dave in Chapter Five?

8. What piece of advice does Dave recall from his father in Chapter Seven?

9. Describe Johnny Messina in Chapter One.

10. In Chapter Two, what is it about the dead girl that makes Dave suspicious?

(see the answer keys)

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