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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Catherine?
(a) Twenty-three.
(b) Twenty-nine.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Twenty-five.

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

3. What is the name of Molly Perkins' son?
(a) Carl.
(b) Josh.
(c) Jacob.
(d) Luke.

4. Who comes to visit Catherine at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Sally.
(b) Randall.
(c) Leila.
(d) Tom.

5. What is Catherine pestered by when she is out at the tenant shack?
(a) Horseflies.
(b) Rats.
(c) Mosquitoes.
(d) Dogs.

6. Where does Tom live?
(a) With Randall.
(b) In Catherine's father's old office.
(c) In Mary Jane Cory's basement.
(d) At an apartment near the grocery store.

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

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

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

10. Who is Randall Gerrard?
(a) Catherine's boss.
(b) Tom's brother.
(c) Betty's husband.
(d) Mary Jane's boyfriend.

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

12. What does Catherine find in the tenant shack?
(a) A sick farmer.
(b) A dead body.
(c) Rats.
(d) Freshly baked pies.

13. Whose number was at the top of Tom's phone list?
(a) Randall's.
(b) Catherine's.
(c) His mother's.
(d) Sheriff Galton's.

14. Who is Betty?
(a) Catherine's best friend.
(b) Catherine's parents' retired maid.
(c) Carl Perkins' mother-in-law.
(d) The town librarian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the thoughts of the sheriff, why did someone move Leona's body?

2. What does Catherine point out to Tom in his house that connects to part of hers?

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

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

5. Where does Catherine live?

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