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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Catherine doing when she receives a call from Mrs. Barnes?
(a) Finishing a news story.
(b) Making a grocery list.
(c) Cleaning the bathroom.
(d) Cooking dinner.

2. What does Catherine pass on her way to the tenant shack at the beginning of the novel?
(a) A farmer.
(b) A strawberry farm.
(c) A dead dog.
(d) A dead squirrel.

3. What is the name of the doctor whose popular column appears in the Lowfield Gazette each week?
(a) Dr. Pepper.
(b) Dr. Swinton.
(c) Dr. Selforth.
(d) Dr. Croft.

4. What happened to Tom Mascalco's fiance in Memphis?
(a) She moved out of the country.
(b) She dumped him.
(c) She was killed in a car accident.
(d) He broke off their engagement.

5. What day did Catherine tell Carl Perkins are busy days at the Gazette?
(a) Friday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Saturday.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Carl Perkins think Catherine's boyfriend is?

2. What is Catherine mostly responsible for at the Gazette?

3. Who does the sheriff choose as the first person to attempt to cross the tenant shack's collapsed porch at the crime scene?

4. What is Catherine pestered by when she is out at the tenant shack?

5. What weapon was used to kill Leona Gaites?

(see the answer key)

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