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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. How many shells does the .460 Weatherbee hold?
(a) Eight (8).
(b) Ten (10).
(c) Five (5).
(d) Twelve (12).

2. According to Magliore, during their January 8th conversation, what is Bart asking him to do?
(a) Commit a moral sin.
(b) Do something illegal.
(c) Risk his own life.
(d) Start dating Mary.

3. What quote from Richard Widmark does Bart recall when getting ready to fire the Weatherbee?
(a) Squeeze the trigger.
(b) Pull the trigger.
(c) Pop the trigger.
(d) Jerk the trigger.

4. What does Bart describe as a shrouded corpse in his home?
(a) The television.
(b) The marital bed.
(c) The pictures from his and Mary's wedding.
(d) The guns he bought from Harold.

5. What song is on the stereo as Bart is test firing his guns?
(a) Satisfaction.
(b) Midnight Rambler.
(c) Brown Sugar.
(d) Start Me Up.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bart places some money in a beer stein that Mary got for him. What does it say on the stein?

2. What does Bart break at the signal of the new year?

3. When talking to Fenner about the finalization of the terms of the house, what does Bart find out?

4. What does Bart prepare to mail to Mary on the night of January 10th?

5. Who does Phil Drake quote while talking to Bart in the den?

Short Essay Questions

1. What specific information does Fenner have on Bart to force a faster sale on Bart's home?

2. Why does Steve Ordner claim that Bart is becoming paranoid?

3. What does Bart do, and think about, while looking at Charlie's clothes in the attic?

4. What does Bart think about when he first sees Mary at the New Year's Eve party?

5. Why does Drake refuse the five thousand dollar donation that Bart tries to give him?

6. Explain Walt Hamner's Tidal Effect principle.

7. What is ironic about the reporter that Bart invites into his home during the stand-off with the police?

8. Why is Bart's backyard different this winter than it has been in the past?

9. Magliore sent men out to "wash" Bart's home. What does this mean, and what did they find?

10. What is Magliore's explanation behind his murders being "good"?

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