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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Catherine's grandfather call his cotton farm?
(a) The farm.
(b) The place.
(c) The fields.
(d) The country.

2. What job did Catherine ask Leona if she had applied for?
(a) The new doctor's nurse.
(b) A live-in nurse for the elderly.
(c) A nurse at the retirement home.
(d) A teller at the bank.

3. What is the name of the sheriff?
(a) Sheriff Harton.
(b) Sheriff Boudreau.
(c) Sheriff James.
(d) Sheriff Galton.

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) Ralph Carson.
(b) Barney Galton.
(c) Percy Newman.
(d) Martin Barnes.

5. Who left the beer in Catherine's refrigerator?
(a) Mary Jane.
(b) Tom.
(c) Betty.
(d) Carl.

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

7. Who are Catherine's neighbors?
(a) The Johnsons.
(b) The Loukins.
(c) The Harolds.
(d) The Perkins.

8. Where is the library located?
(a) Beside Randall's house.
(b) By the sheriff's office.
(c) Across from Catherine's house.
(d) Near the old tenant shack.

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

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

11. What color is the sheriff's car?
(a) White.
(b) Red with white stripes.
(c) Navy blue.
(d) Bright green.

12. What is the name of the dispatcher at the sheriff's office?
(a) Mary Sue Hampton.
(b) Jane Linton.
(c) Mary Jane Cory.
(d) Bobby Jo Carter.

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

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

15. Who did Leona leave all of her money and possessions to in her will?
(a) Catherine's father.
(b) The town of Lowfield.
(c) Sheriff Galton.
(d) Jerry Selforth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the dispatcher call in while Catherine is in the sheriff's office?

2. Which of the following does NOT describe Molly Perkins?

3. Who rents one of the houses near the old tenant shack?

4. What is Catherine able to tell just by looking at the cotton?

5. What was Catherine wearing when she learned about the death of her parents?

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