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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. Why does the younger male bartender tell Cole he had better not touch him while they are in the restroom?
(a) Cole has taken a karate stance.
(b) Cole has his fists up in the air.
(c) Cole has just locked the door.
(d) Cole is showing his gun in the shoulder holster.

2. When Pike tells Cole that they are the only ones in Mr. Moto's restaurant that look like thugs, whom does Cole say they look like?
(a) Humphrey Bogart and Homer Simpson.
(b) Johnny Depp and Adam West.
(c) Don Johnson and Fred Flintstone.
(d) Denzel Washington and Peter Parker.

3. What is Mimi wearing to attend the Pacific Men's Club Man of the Month Banquet?
(a) Jeans and a tee shirt.
(b) A shapeless brown silk dress.
(c) A tight, red dress.
(d) A pantsuit.

4. What type of house does Nobu Ishida own in Cheviot Hills?
(a) A new raised ranch.
(b) A tudor.
(c) An older split-level.
(d) A colonial.

5. Where does Cole go in order to meet up with Pike in Chapter Eight?
(a) Barton's Pistol Range.
(b) Century City Towers.
(c) McDonald's.
(d) A movie theater.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Bradley expand Cole's services in Chapter Seven?

2. Where is Nobu Ishida's import business located?

3. What does Mimi witness between her mother and Cole in Chapter Five?

4. What brand of beer does Sheila offer Cole in Chapter Five?

5. While Cole is looking through Ishida's credit card statements, where does he note Ishida had gone two or three times a week over the past three months?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Pike's and Cole's thoughts about Bradley Warren's possible involvement in the theft of the Hagakure in Chapter Fourteen?

2. In Chapter Six, Sheila explains the phone call threat she has received. How does she explain it to Cole?

3. Why is Bradley desperate to get back the Hagakure in a week's time?

4. How does Cole describe to the reader what he smells in the little office on the catwalk in Nobu Ishida's business?

5. Why does Cole believe that the threatening phone calls the Warrens are receiving are harassment calls?

6. How does Cole come to discover where the Hagakure might be if someone wanted to purchase it on the black market?

7. What is FBI agent Reese's attitude towards Bradley Warren?

8. Why does Cole make a serious effort to convince Bradley Warren to call the police in Chapter Eleven?

9. How is nearly everyone reacting once they come out of the murder scene in Ishida's office?

10. How does the writer get across to the reader Cole's sense of humor in Chapter Four?

(see the answer keys)

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