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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 is Cletus' reason for killing Bobby Joe Starkweather?
(a) Starkweather was going to expose him as a dirty cop.
(b) Starkweather was cutting off the supply of prostitutes.
(c) Because Starkweather beat up Dave.
(d) $10,000.

2. Beauvoir is referred to as what in Chapter Ten?
(a) A street in Biloxi.
(b) A waiter at the restaurant.
(c) Jefferson Davis' home.
(d) A town on the Gulf Coast.

3. What does Dave prepare to eat before visiting Annie and the Times-Picayune in Chapter Eight?
(a) Gumbo.
(b) Poor-boy sandwich.
(c) Peanut butter sandwich.
(d) Cereal.

4. In Chapter Nine, Dave starts his day with what?
(a) A phone call.
(b) A swim.
(c) A drink.
(d) A five-mile run.

5. Who says, "I worry about stuff all the time I don't have control over"?
(a) Didi Gee.
(b) Nate Baxter.
(c) Dave.
(d) Jimmie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dave confesses to whom about having killed Philip Murphy?

2. What was Dave's wife's name?

3. What does Dave suggest to the General that he should read?

4. 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?

5. From what era are the homes in the Garden District described in Chapter Eight?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dave tell Captain Guidry about Cletus in Chapter Eleven?

2. Dave confronts Philip Murphy and plans to take him back to New Orleans. What is the outcome of this?

3. Why does Didi Gee want Jimmie dead?

4. When Dave first begins tailing Cletus, he notices that Cletus is hung over and apparently has a real problem with alcohol. What does Dave predict for Cletus's day?

5. What does Dave do before asking Andres questions, and why?

6. What is in the Gulf, south of Morgan City?

7. As Dave sits in jail without enough money for bail, he thinks it is perhaps the lowest morning of his life with the exception of what incident?

8. In Chapter Ten, Dave contemplates how he is not making much of a difference in the world. His brother Jimmie understands that and puts his energy into what pursuits?

9. In Chapter Eight, when Dave sees Annie's date for the evening, what does he do?

10. Where is Didi Gee's office located, and what type of businesses are run from there?

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