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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 Cliff Baxter threaten the gas station owners with?
(a) Taking the town accounts elsewhere.
(b) Setting the place on fire.
(c) Arrest.
(d) Shutting the place down.

2. What does Keith Landry do when Officer Ward shows up at the Porter house?
(a) Blackmails him into clearing the all points bulletin (APB) on him.
(b) Sends him away.
(c) Beats and handcuffs him.
(d) Questions him closely about Cliff Baxter's whereabouts.

3. What advice does Keith Landry get from a volunteer deputy?
(a) Switch cars.
(b) Take guns.
(c) Run far and fast.
(d) Be careful of Cliff Baxter's booby traps.

4. Where does Keith Landry go after he leaves the place he went after the night Cliff Baxter found him and Annie?
(a) Spencerville.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Cliff Baxter's family retreat.
(d) New York.

5. What does Keith Landry wonder about on the night before the meeting with Charlie Adair and others?
(a) Whether he will be offered enough money to make the job worthwhile.
(b) What Annie would think if he took this position.
(c) Whether he can back down from Cliff Baxter by moving to Washington D.C.
(d) Whether he will be back in time to meet Annie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Keith Landry have a difficult time returning home after the meeting Charlie Adair had arranged?

2. What does Cliff tell Annie in Chapter 19?

3. How many copies of the transcript of the meeting have Gail and Jeffrey Porter sold?

4. How does Keith Landry ultimately get back home?

5. What does Keith Landry suggest to Gail Porter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Keith Landry find when he arrives in Spencerville?

2. Describe the fight between Annie and Cliff Baxter in Chapter 19.

3. What happens at the Porters' house?

4. How do Keith and Annie end up in a motel in Toledo?

5. Describe Keith Landry's interaction with Gail Porter before Charlie Adair shows up.

6. How does Cliff Baxter come to find Keith and Annie in Toledo?

7. What warning do Keith and Annie get from Annie's brother-in-law, and how do Keith and Annie respond to it?

8. Why is Keith Landry wanted by the police?

9. Describe Keith Landry and Annie's meeting in Chapter 20.

10. What happens after the scene in the motel?

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