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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does John escape Stevens in Chapter 37?
(a) John wrestles his gun from him and shoots him.
(b) John is able to hide from him in a crevice in the cliffs.
(c) John jumps into the sea and swims to where Beth is.
(d) Beth arrives and shoots Stevens.

2. Which two local friends of the Gordons owned .45 guns?
(a) Emma and John.
(b) John and Tobin.
(c) Max and Emma.
(d) Max and Tobin.

3. What does John show to the Murphys to identify Tobin as a man that frequently visited the Gordons?
(a) A picture of Tobin he had cut from a local magazine.
(b) A snapshot of Tobin he took on his phone.
(c) A brochure from Tobin's winery.
(d) A photograph they took of Tobin down at the station.

4. How does John feel when he realizes he won't make his mandatory meeting due to the weather?
(a) He doesn't care.
(b) He is annoyed.
(c) He is disappointed.
(d) He is very happy.

5. What is wrong with the Murphy's key to the Gordon house?
(a) It is missing.
(b) It has broken in half.
(c) Nothing is wrong with their key.
(d) It no longer fits the locks, since they were changed.

6. Why does Beth suspect Stevens?
(a) He looks like a killer.
(b) She found some of his prints at the Gordons' house.
(c) She received an anonymous tip.
(d) His interviews are inconsistent.

7. In Chapter 38, what is John doing for employment?
(a) He is unemployed.
(b) He is back with NYPD.
(c) He is working as a professor teaching homicide investigation.
(d) He is working as a consultant for Max.

8. When John leaves the hole in Chapter 37, what does he find?
(a) The local police are outside waiting for him.
(b) The hole is surrounded by a four-foot barbed wire fence.
(c) He is on the edge of a cliff.
(d) Steven is pointing a gun at him.

9. According to John in Chapter 30, when does he think Tobin decided to kill the Gordons?
(a) From the onset of their plan.
(b) After they had moved the treasure.
(c) John has no theory on this.
(d) He didn't decide to kill them until the day he did.

10. How does Emma Whitestone know Tobin?
(a) She used to be his lover.
(b) She is his cousin.
(c) She is his neighbor.
(d) She used to work for him.

11. What happens to Tobin at the end of the novel?
(a) He has been executed for his murder of the Gordons.
(b) He dies from complications from his fight with John.
(c) He is in prison awaiting his trial.
(d) He has escaped and no one knows his whereabouts.

12. What show was Agnes watching the night Tom and Judy were murdered?
(a) Oprah.
(b) The Montel Williams Show.
(c) Little House on the Prairie.
(d) Days of our lives.

13. When Tobin tries to ram their boat, what does Beth do?
(a) She swears at Tobin.
(b) She shoots Tobin in the right arm.
(c) She throws a life preserver at Tobin.
(d) She shoots a signal flare into his boat.

14. Dom, John's partner, leaves him a message in Chapter 24. Who does Dom say would like to talk with John?
(a) The anti-terrorist divison of the FBI.
(b) The CIA.
(c) His ex-wife.
(d) The mayor of New York.

15. What response does Beth take to Tobin firing on them?
(a) She screams and flops down on the deck.
(b) She throws the boat into full throttle to leave the scene.
(c) She returns fire with her 9mm gun.
(d) She attempts to radio the Coast Guard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item of clothing are both John and Beth missing when they arrive at the island in Chapter 34?

2. How did Captain Kidd die?

3. What skill did Emma teach Fredric Tobin while they were dating?

4. What is the name of Tobin's housekeeper?

5. Who does John call to let him into the historical society location?

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