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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the dispatcher doing as Catherine enters the sheriff's office?
(a) Filing.
(b) Cleaning her desk.
(c) Typing.
(d) Talking on the phone.

3. What weapon was used to kill Leona Gaites?
(a) A shot gun.
(b) A baseball bat.
(c) A knife.
(d) A rubber hammer.

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

5. What color did the tenant shack used to be?
(a) Green.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Blue.

6. What is the name of Leona's lawyer?
(a) John Daniels.
(b) Robert Smith.
(c) Daniel Johnson.
(d) Robert Johns.

7. Where does Catherine want to go to buy new curtains and clothes?
(a) Memphis.
(b) Little Rock.
(c) Biloxi.
(d) New York.

8. According to the thoughts of the sheriff, why did someone move Leona's body?
(a) To make a quick get away.
(b) To move into her house.
(c) To deter the police.
(d) To delay the discovery of it.

9. Who does the body the Catherine discovers turn out to be?
(a) Shirley Meyers.
(b) Mary Sue Gibson.
(c) Leona Gaites.
(d) Lyle Gardner.

10. What did Catherine call her father's nurse as a child?
(a) Miss Meyers.
(b) Miss Shirley.
(c) Miss Leona.
(d) Miss Gaites.

11. What is the name of the deputy whose job it is to take pictures of the scene?
(a) Percy.
(b) Paul.
(c) Mike.
(d) Samson.

12. What type of book is Catherine halfway through when the murder takes place?
(a) A poetry book.
(b) A murder mystery.
(c) A book of short stories.
(d) A romance novel.

13. Who does Catherine tell the sheriff she saw on her way out to the tenant shack?
(a) Tom Mascalco.
(b) Betty Eakins.
(c) Martin Barnes.
(d) Carl Perkins.

14. Which of the following does NOT describe Tom?
(a) Clean shaven.
(b) Catherine's neighbor.
(c) Long lean frame.
(d) A reporter at the newspaper.

15. What does Catherine compare the town's reaction to her discovery of Leona's body to?
(a) Her leaving home for school.
(b) Sickness.
(c) Having a new baby.
(d) A death in her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Molly Perkins' son?

2. What happened to Tom Mascalco's fiance in Memphis?

3. Who left the beer in Catherine's refrigerator?

4. What did Catherine's grandfather call his cotton farm?

5. What color is the sheriff's car?

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