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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who found the Gordons' bodies?
(a) Their maid and gardener.
(b) Max.
(c) Their neighbor.
(d) The paper boy.

2. What items does Paul Stevens ask to collect from the officers on the ferry, in Chapter 7?
(a) Any food they may be carrying.
(b) Their fingerprints.
(c) Their guns.
(d) A blood sample.

3. What recent disease was caught by humans from animals, and was being studied on Plum Island?
(a) Chicken pox.
(b) Swine flu.
(c) A strain of horse fever.
(d) Mad Cow Disease.

4. Who gives John a ride home from the crime scene in Chapter 2?
(a) He walks home.
(b) Officer Penrose.
(c) Officer Johnson.
(d) Max.

5. What time did the police department receive the call about the Gordons' murder?
(a) 2:00 a.m.
(b) 5:50 p.m.
(c) 7:10 p.m.
(d) 8:30 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the ferry that John takes to Plum Island?

2. What is John's favorite meal?

3. What music group is John listening to at the beginning of the novel?

4. What did the early settlers of the sixteen and seventeen hundreds use Plum Island for?

5. What does Dr. Zollner believe that the Gordons wanted more than being rich?

(see the answer key)

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