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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 Terrance's job?
(a) A dentist.
(b) A politician.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A lawyer.

2. What is the name of the man following Neagly?
(a) Peter Davison.
(b) Eli Wickner.
(c) Roy Pmeranz.
(d) Sam Spade.

3. Who are Brenda and Myron's mother discussing in the kitchen?
(a) Arthur.
(b) Myron.
(c) Horace.
(d) Elizabeth.

4. What does Campbell say he has sent Horace?
(a) A book.
(b) A gun.
(c) A letter.
(d) A car.

5. Where does Brenda say her mother ran away to?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York.
(c) Maryland.
(d) Los Angeles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Brenda's father?

2. What did Horace use to cut the boy's Achilles tendons?

3. What did the big man do to Mabel when she did not come forward with information?

4. What kind of order did Brenda have against her father?

5. What suggests Horace got away before his house was searched?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Myron confuse the Bradfords as he leaves their estate?

2. What do Myron and Brenda find in Horace's apartment?

3. What does Brenda remember about the lawyer her father had been contacting?

4. Why does Mabel think the two men after her brother are dangerous?

5. Why do the police think Brenda killed her father?

6. What happens in the novel's prologue?

7. How does Myron react to the detectives accusations that Brenda killed her father?

8. What does Jessica tell Myron on the phone?

9. How does Myron know Brenda's father, Horace?

10. How does Myron deal with Mario's attack?

(see the answer keys)

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