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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does Az speak that nobody else knows?

2. What does Ross think Az is the first time he meets him?

3. When Cissy is caught visiting with Gray Wolf, what does she tell her husband she is doing?

4. Why do the townspeople believe the ground is frozen?

5. How does Cissy wish she'd met her husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Ross's thoughts of suicide?

2. Why does Spencer tell Cissy he fired Gray Wolf?

3. How are the De La Corriases an example of Meredith's work?

4. What does Meredith's reckless driving prove?

5. What, according to Spencer's lectures, does he believe about African Americans?

6. Why does Spencer take his wife to a New York doctor?

7. Why did Gray Wolf kill a man?

8. What job does Ross have with the Warburtons and what are the Warburtons looking for when they do an investigation?

9. How does Cissy show strength when she hires Gray Wolf?

10. Why does Meredith believe that Lucy is psychotic?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the author add important information about the case? Do you think the old newspaper clippings, police reports and interviews help or hurt the story line? Why?

Essay Topic 2

What are the descriptions from Spencer's lecture about African Americans? What does he say about the Missing Link? How were you surprised by the information in his lectures? Do you think these were real thoughts and ideas? What would this be thought of as today?

Essay Topic 3

How is trial evidence added to the story? Do you like the way the author connected the evidence and facts with the information gathered by the ghost hunter?

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