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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. Where does John eat lunch in Chapter 27?
(a) At his house.
(b) With Beth at the police station.
(c) With Emma at her florist shop.
(d) On the Gordons' bluff.

2. When Tobin fires his rifle in Chapter 34, what does he hit?
(a) John's right arm.
(b) Beth's hat.
(c) He misses them completely.
(d) The windshield of the boat.

3. How long does it take for Beth and John to get from the vineyard to Tobin's house at Founders Landing?
(a) 20 minutes.
(b) 45 minutes.
(c) 1 hour.
(d) 2 hours.

4. After Beth brings John up-to date on the work she has done for the investigation in Chapter 24, what is his response?
(a) He is upset with how sloppy she has been.
(b) He commends Beth on her thoroughness.
(c) He is indifferent and does not listen to her.
(d) He shares all of the information he has learned.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What topic does Emma discuss with John as they look at the stars in Chapter 17?

2. When John returns home in Chapter 28, how many messages does he have?

3. What is the name of the boat Tobin has taken out to see in Chapter 33?

4. What is wrong with the Murphy's key to the Gordon house?

5. Where do Emma and John go to dinner in Chapter 23?

Short Essay Questions

1. When John attempts to kiss Beth in Chapter 15, how does she respond?

2. What unique item does John find at Tobin's apartment that leads him to believe Tobin planned to bury the treasure on his land all along?

3. What does Beth discuss with Dom in Chapter 30?

4. Why has Beth come to visit John in Chapter 24?

5. What convinces John that Stevens is part of the plot to assassinate the Gordons?

6. When Beth and John do a quick inventory of wounds in Chapter 35, what wounds have they both sustained?

7. Why didn't Margaret Wiley initially want to sell the land to the Gordons?

8. Describe Fredric Tobin's winery that John visits in Chapter 16.

9. Why is Tobin's housekeeper so frightened when Beth and John arrive?

10. What does John and Beth suppose that Tobin planned to do with the skeleton they found in his cellar?

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