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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 the narrator say Cisco's attention can wander like?
(a) A balloon.
(b) Smoke.
(c) A child.
(d) A cloud.

2. What does Robicheaux find out that one of Lila's ancestors had been?
(a) A slave owner.
(b) A propert developer.
(c) A war hero.
(d) A slave.

3. Who does Megan believe the Hanged Man is in reference to?
(a) Robicheaux..
(b) Her father.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Clete.

4. Who does Lester Cobb say is a pimp?
(a) Purcel.
(b) Flynn.
(c) Robicheaux.
(d) Scruggs.

5. How do the Cajuns pronounce the word mouth?
(a) Mout.
(b) Mouf.
(c) Moud.
(d) Moot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Clete's eyes droop at the corners like?

2. What does the narrator compare Megan's smile to?

3. What did a man caution Mulcahy not to do?

4. What is Purcel's job in New Orleans?

5. What has an identified black man set fire to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cool Breeze tell Robicheaux about the two brother's murders in Chapter 10?

2. How does Cool Breeze say things started to go downhill for Ida?

3. Why does the Clerk contact the authorities about the man who comes into his shop to buy a gun?

4. What childhood memory does Robicheaux recall in Chapter 1?

5. What does Robicheaux find out about the Terrabonne family in this section?

6. What trouble does Robicheaux say Cool Breeze is in in this section?

7. What does Glazier think about Megan Flynn?

8. What photograph of Flynns does Robicheaux see in this section?

9. How did the two brothers eventually die?

10. What does Maddux say he knows about Harpo Scruggs?

(see the answer keys)

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