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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. In what area of New Orleans does General Abshire live?
(a) Audubon Park.
(b) The Garden District.
(c) New Iberia.
(d) French Quarter.

2. Whom does Dave observe watching his houseboat before driving away in a gunmetal gray Chrysler?
(a) A federal agent.
(b) Cletus.
(c) Nate Baxter.
(d) General Abshire.

3. Who is described in Chapter Twelve as a "leviathan surfacing from the depths"?
(a) The clerk in the store.
(b) Didi Gee's bodyguard.
(c) Dave.
(d) Didi Gee.

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

5. Why is Andres' left hand bandaged?
(a) It was in a tank with piranha.
(b) His fingers were broken.
(c) No one knows.
(d) It was put in a vise.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "It's going to rain frogs" at the end of Chapter Twelve?

2. What does Cletus wear to the station on his day off in Chapter Nine"

3. When Dave has his first visit with Annie after the shooting, she looks like what to him?

4. Who says, "In a few more weeks we're going to be stringing some green trout"?

5. In Chapter Ten, Dave recalls a small plane with a family hitting a headwind and crashing into the Gulf. From where was the small plane?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Dave's father's feelings about guns?

2. Andres is brought to Dave's houseboat in Chapter Nine by Didi Gee's men. Where has Dave seen Andres before?

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

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 Annie do and feel when she wakes up to find Dave has gone following their first night together?

6. Dave confronts Cletus one last time in Chapter Eleven. What does he tell Cletus he can do?

7. In Chapter Twelve, Dave says that he is caught in the lens. What does he mean by this?

8. Why is Didi Gee upset in Chapter Ten?

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

10. What happens with Dave's job when he is reinstated?

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