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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 much weight was on the bar when Del was killed?
(a) 200 pounds.
(b) 190 pounds.
(c) 180 pounds.
(d) 210 pounds.

2. What is Claude doing in his car while he was waiting for Lily to come home at the beginning of Chapter Three?
(a) Listening to music.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Looking at a flyer left on his car.
(d) Reading.

3. The flyer that is being distributed all over town is about ___________.
(a) How black people need to stand up for themselves.
(b) A meeting for white people.
(c) How the white male needs to take back their own.
(d) How white people need to lynch black people.

4. What does Lily learn about herself in regard to the Winthrops as she leaves their house after meeting the strange man with Howell?
(a) She feels a certain loyalty to them.
(b) She feels no loyalty to them.
(c) She is afraid of them.
(d) She does not like them.

5. Why is Lily angry when she goes to bed after her date with Claude in Montrose?
(a) He does not believe her when she said his cops were useless at The Fight.
(b) He makes her retell the story of The Fight.
(c) He does not want to be friends with her.
(d) He tells her that she was being sued.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lily think about as she looks up at Claude's dark window on the night she walks late?

2. Where was Beanie Winthrop most likely to be found during the day?

3. Of what nationality is Marshall one-quarter?

4. What is Lily's relationship with Claude?

5. Why does Janet believe that the spotter had to be a man?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the spotter do to Del?

2. What is the relationship between Claude and Lily?

3. Why are the three murders that have taken place recently in Shakespeare suspicious to Lily?

4. Where is Claude when Lily arrives home from work at the end of her day, and what do they discover together?

5. What is the relationship between Marshall and Lily?

6. As the novel opens, what is Del doing and where is he?

7. What point of view is the Prologue written in, and what information does this lend to the reader?

8. Who is Darcy Orchard and how does he treat Lily?

9. How does Bobo react when Lily comes to karate class on the night that Raphael has returned?

10. What transpires between Jerrell and Deedra in Chapter Two, and how does Lily feel about it?

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