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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. What does Dud repeatedly ask his visitor to do?
(a) Call the police.
(b) Buy him some beer.
(c) Pay a bill.
(d) Leave.

2. Why does Marjorie Glick report her sons missing?
(a) They have been out all night.
(b) They missed the bus that should have brought them home.
(c) They are overdue at home and never arrived at their destination.
(d) They did not go to school that day.

3. To whom was the Marsten House sold?
(a) Larry Crockett.
(b) Ben Mears.
(c) Hubert Marsten, Jr.
(d) Straker and Barlow.

4. Who is traveling with the tall man in Chapter 1?
(a) An adolescent child.
(b) A small child.
(c) An elderly man.
(d) An elderly woman.

5. Who died in Marsten House in 1939?
(a) Susan and Ann.
(b) Billy and Bobby.
(c) Ben and Carol.
(d) Hubert and Birdie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Matt and Ben find this missing person?

2. Who is seen by several characters buying groceries at Milt Crossen's and lifting it with apparently no trouble?

3. What does Susan tell Ben before leaving him for the night in Chapter 5?

4. Where do the tall man and his companion go after leaving California?

5. Who tells her daughter she disapproves of Ben Mears?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which of the brothers eventually arrives home? What condition is he in?

2. Who becomes convinced that Danny's eyes are open in his coffin? What does he do about it?

3. What detail does Ben suggest Matt leave out of his discussion with the police about Mike's death? Why?

4. Who is waiting for Ben the following evening when he leaves the boardinghouse to go to Spencer's?

5. Why does Matt call Ben in the middle of the night? What does he ask him to bring?

6. Why did Ben enter the Marsten House as a nine-year-old boy?

7. What do Ben and Matt discuss over dinner in Chapter 7?

8. To whom does the boy make a confession?

9. What takes place in Harmony Hill Cemetery at midnight on the day depicted in Chapter 3?

10. Which children go missing in Chapter 4? Who sounds the alarm?

(see the answer keys)

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