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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Catherine doing out at the tenant shack?
(a) Cleaning.
(b) Surveying the property.
(c) Visiting a farmer.
(d) Target practice.

2. Where does Catherine live?
(a) Mobile.
(b) Lowfield.
(c) Millview.
(d) Little Rock.

3. Where was Catherine when she learned about the death of her parents?
(a) Lowfield.
(b) Texas.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) New York.

4. Who does the sheriff choose as the first person to attempt to cross the tenant shack's collapsed porch at the crime scene?
(a) Barney Galton.
(b) Percy Newman.
(c) Martin Barnes.
(d) Ralph Carson.

5. Why did Catherine feel obligated to be kind to the new doctor in Lowfield?
(a) Because she refused going on dates with him.
(b) Because her parents had been kind to him.
(c) Because he was rich.
(d) Because he was handicapped.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dispatcher doing as Catherine enters the sheriff's office?

2. Who rents Catherine's property where the tenant house is located?

3. What does Catherine realize about the dog she saw at the beginning of the novel?

4. What type of tree does Catherine park her car under at the tenant shack?

5. What does Catherine do at the end of Chapter 1 that enables her steady her nerves?

(see the answer key)

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