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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 24-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jake decide not to go to the fireworks stand with Frank, Gus, and Officer Doyle?
(a) He wants to stay and bake with Ariel.
(b) He and Frank are still technically grounded.
(c) He says he has a bad feeling about it.
(d) He does not have money to buy fireworks.

2. What behavior does Ruth exhibit that lets Frank and Jake know how upset she is and truly frightens them as a result?
(a) She crawls under the covers and will not leave her bed.
(b) She breaks all of the windows in the house.
(c) She keeps pouring coffee into her cup even when the coffee is flowing onto the table and floor.
(d) She lets her cigarette burn down to its filter in her hand.

3. Upon leaving their grandfather's house and starting to walk home, Jake suddenly stops in the middle of the road. What reason does he give for stopping?
(a) He cannot stop thinking about how much he wants Ariel back.
(b) He has realized that he left the bonus from their grandfather on the back of the toilet.
(c) He is having a vision of Ariel coming to tell him something.
(d) He feels like he is going to throw up.

4. What simile does Gus use to describe Nathan's reaction to Ariel's death?
(a) Like a stranger in the night.
(b) Like a thorn in a rose.
(c) Like a punch in the face.
(d) Like a knife in the back.

5. What do Karl's male friends say he revealed to them in the weeks leading up to Ariel's disappearance?
(a) He told his friends that he had been seeing a high school senior boy from a nearby town.
(b) He told his friends that he had been sleeping with Ariel.
(c) He told his friends he planned to pursue his acting career on Broadway rather than attending college.
(d) He told his friends that he had accepted a scholarship to attend Juilliard.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the sheriff calls Frank onto the porch and asks him a series of questions, about whom are the questions?

2. What evidence of Warren Redstone's guilt do the police find when they search the O'Keefes' basement where he has been staying?

3. What happens to foil Frank's plan to find out what happens during the conversation between Ruth and Nathan?

4. When Jake refers to the possible identity of Ariel's murderer, Frank realizes he has been in denial about the possibility of foul play in Ariel's death. Prior to this moment, what has Frank been thinking happened to Ariel?

5. After the incident with Officer Doyle and the killing of the animal with the M-80, how does Frank feel about fireworks?

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