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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. Who offers Pat a job?
(a) Doc Luther.
(b) Madeline Flournoy.
(c) Lila Luther.
(d) No one.

2. When Doc introduces Madeline to Pat what does he say she is?
(a) A secretary.
(b) His colleague.
(c) His sister.
(d) His ex-girlfriend.

3. Where do Doc and Pat visit Myrtle?
(a) At her apartment.
(b) At the capital.
(c) At the roadhouse diner.
(d) At Governor Clay's office.

4. What does Pat spend a few days wondering about?
(a) How to find a better job.
(b) How to extricate himself from Doc's plans.
(c) How to avoid Lila.
(d) How to confess his feelings to Madeline.

5. What does Hardesty hint about the plan?
(a) It will land Doc in jail.
(b) It will make Pat rich.
(c) It is not well conceived.
(d) It will involve Pat going back to prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Madeline take from Doc's car?

2. What does Pat realize at the end of Chapter 11?

3. How has Myrtle kept her position for so long?

4. Who occupies the lower apartments of the house?

5. How old is Pat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Doc steal money from the college?

2. Why does Madeline caution Pat to be careful around Doc?

3. Why is Doc jealous of Bill Hardesty?

4. Describe Pat's new home.

5. After Doc picks Pat up from prison, they stop at a roadhouse diner. What bombshell does Doc drop on Pat at the diner?

6. Does Pat find out more about Doc from Lila? Why or why not?

7. Why was Pat tried as an adult instead of a juvenile when he was seventeen?

8. Is Pat an intelligent character? Support your answer with evidence from the first five chapters.

9. After the incident with Madeline in the parking lot, what does Doc tell Pat?

10. Why is there a tussle between Pat and the woman he was following?

(see the answer keys)

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