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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Snapper want to do with Levon now that the insurance men are gone?
(a) Keep him tied up.
(b) Feed him to the dogs.
(c) Put him in the trunk of the car.
(d) Kill him and dump him.

2. How does Keith Higstrom die?
(a) A tree falls on him.
(b) The hurricane kills him.
(c) A bull impales him.
(d) Boating accident.

3. What does Snapper do to Edie and Fred in Chapter 14 after he returns to Tony's?
(a) He separates them.
(b) He kills them.
(c) He ties them up.
(d) He takes their money.

4. Why doesn't Jim take Edie to jail?
(a) He can't prove that she has broken the law.
(b) Augustine asks him not to.
(c) Skink asks him not to.
(d) He wants to find proof at Tony's first.

5. How does Edie open a bank account in Neria's name?
(a) She cries that her identification was lost.
(b) She gets Fred to open the account.
(c) She has Neria's identification.
(d) She causes a commotion with the dogs.

6. What does Neria wish for Celeste's life?
(a) Success.
(b) The professor as the highlight.
(c) Poverty.
(d) True love.

7. What offer does Skink make to Jim?
(a) He will find the man who beat Brenda.
(b) He will run and hide.
(c) He will never hurt anyone again.
(d) He will apologize to Max and Bonnie.

8. How does Ira respond to Avila when Avila pleads for his life at the end of Chapter 15?
(a) He feeds him to chickens.
(b) Ira says, "I want you to die."
(c) Ira says, "You can live after you pay for my mother's death."
(d) He hits him over the head with a hammer.

9. What does Augustine find out about the vehicle that the stolen plate was on?
(a) The vehicle has been in an accident.
(b) The hoodlums are still driving it around.
(c) It is now being driven by a white man.
(d) The plate is on a different car.

10. Who steals the license plate from the family's Camaro?
(a) Snapper.
(b) Edie.
(c) Avila.
(d) Hoodlums.

11. Who does Augustine find when he gets back to Calusa Drive after getting the guns?
(a) No one.
(b) Edie.
(c) Levon.
(d) Snapper.

12. What does Skink finally do with the scorpion?
(a) He eats it.
(b) He sets it free in the woods.
(c) He makes Max eat it.
(d) Places it in the 18th hole cup on the mayor's favorite golf course.

13. Why couldn't Jim catch the Jeep of Snapper's that he was following?
(a) Because of a slow moving family in a station wagon.
(b) A group of monkeys stop traffic.
(c) His car breaks down.
(d) The roads are flooded.

14. When Neria calls Tony's neighbor, Mr. Varga, where does he suggest that Tony may be?
(a) Hiding out because his noisy family had come to stay.
(b) He has run away.
(c) Hiding out because of death threats.
(d) Hiding out because of a threat of investigation of the trailers.

15. What does Skink bring out of the bush for Bonnie and Augustine to eat?
(a) Boar.
(b) Unidentified eggs.
(c) Toad.
(d) Chicken eggs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What saves Jim's life?

2. Why doesn't Neria find out that Tony is dead when she calls the police?

3. How does Avila find Snapper in Chapter 19?

4. What does Augustine tell Skink about how he views the way he feels about Bonnie?

5. Why do Neria and the professor take Celeste along with them to Florida?

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