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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who rents one of the houses near the old tenant shack?
(a) Jewel Crenna.
(b) Tom Mascalco.
(c) Betty Eakins.
(d) Martin Barnes.

2. What was the person Catherine saw on her way out to the tenant shack driving?
(a) A red station wagon.
(b) A blue pick-up truck.
(c) A white convertible.
(d) A dented yellow utility truck.

3. What does Catherine realize about the dog she saw at the beginning of the novel?
(a) The dog must belong to the killer.
(b) The same person who killed her father's nurse killed the dog.
(c) The dog must have belonged to her father's nurse.
(d) The dog was a potential witness to the crime.

4. What does Molly Perkins bring to Catherine's house?
(a) Gumbo.
(b) Lentils.
(c) Fried chicken.
(d) Apple pie.

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

6. What is Catherine able to tell just by looking at the cotton?
(a) It would make a sad crop.
(b) It was being picked prematurely.
(c) It would provide a plentiful crop.
(d) It hadn't been tended to properly.

7. Who lived in Catherine's house before her parents?
(a) A relative of Randall's.
(b) Martin Barnes.
(c) Her grandparents.
(d) The Perkins.

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

9. What does Catherine point out to Tom in his house that connects to part of hers?
(a) A buzzer.
(b) A sidewalk.
(c) A telephone.
(d) A secret passageway.

10. What did Catherine's mother teach her?
(a) How to be a lady.
(b) How to ride a horse.
(c) How to bake a pie.
(d) How to shoot a gun.

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

12. Which of the following does NOT describe Carl Perkins?
(a) He is Catherine's neighbor.
(b) He drives a white Lincoln.
(c) He is the county coroner.
(d) He is interested in Catherine romantically.

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

14. Where is the sheriff's office located?
(a) Outside of town.
(b) Next to the post office.
(c) In front of the old jail.
(d) Near Catherine's house.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Molly Perkins?

2. Where does Catherine want to go to buy new curtains and clothes?

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

4. Why did Tom ask Catherine for a beer?

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

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