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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who comes to visit Catherine in Chapter 5?
(a) Tom Mascalco.
(b) Betty Eakins.
(c) Sheriff Galton.
(d) Randall Gerrard.

3. What does Catherine do at the end of Chapter 1 that enables her steady her nerves?
(a) She drinks a beer.
(b) She takes deep breaths.
(c) She has a cigarette.
(d) She screams.

4. What is the name of Lowfield's new doctor?
(a) Dr. Robert Galston.
(b) Dr. John Sellers.
(c) Dr. Jerry Selforth.
(d) Dr. Albert Einstein.

5. Who is the author of "Sweet and Deadly?"
(a) Charlaine Harris.
(b) Cheryl Grandy.
(c) Charlene Hughes.
(d) Carol Dunnant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Catherine feel when she wakes up the morning after finding the dead body?

3. What is the name of the sheriff?

4. Why did Catherine feel obligated to be kind to the new doctor in Lowfield?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Catherine have to go back to the crime scene with the sheriff and what is her reaction?

2. What is Catherine's explanation for why her father's old office is so close to her home?

3. What is Catherine's own idea of her present image in Lowfield and how does she feel about it?

4. Who does Catherine receive a call from while she is on her lunch break on Tuesday? What does this person accuse Catherine of and what is her response?

5. Describe the change in Catherine's character in Chapter 11? Does her personality seem to change at all? Who notices?

6. How is the relationship of Catherine and Randall advanced by the dramatic situation they find themselves in after Leona's and then Tom's death?

7. Who is interested in Tom Mascalco? Why does this person confide in Catherine? What is this person's reaction to Catherine and Tom's friendship?

8. What does Catherine find in the old, abandoned tenant house and what is her reaction?

9. Who does Randall fear that Leona may have blackmailed and why? How would Leona have gotten this information?

10. Who does the body that Catherine discovers turn out to be and why is the sheriff disturbed at the discovery?

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