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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. Who is Molly Perkins?
(a) Jerry Selforth's new nurse.
(b) The librarian.
(c) Catherine's aunt.
(d) The coroner's wife.

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

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

4. Where does Catherine live?
(a) Mobile.
(b) Lowfield.
(c) Millview.
(d) Little Rock.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who rents Catherine's property where the tenant house is located?

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

3. What day of the week is it when Catherine wakes up the morning after finding the dead body?

4. What was the person Catherine saw on her way out to the tenant shack driving?

5. What was the name of Catherine's father?

Short Essay Questions

1. The morning after she finds Leona's body, how does Catherine feel when she firsts wakes up? How does this change? Can you explain the reasons for Catherine's feelings?

2. Describe the last time that Catherine talked to Leona Gaites, as she explains it to Sheriff Galton.

3. What was Catherine and Randall's relationship like prior to the incident of Catherine discovering Leona Gaites' body? Why does the relationship head in a different directions afterward?

4. Who does Catherine see on the way to the farm the day she discovers the body? Where does she see this person? How does she feel about telling this to the sheriff?

5. Do you believe that Catherine's discovery of Tom's body has lessened or heightened Sheriff Galton's suspicion of her? What else in Chapter 11 could contribute to the heightening or lessening of the sheriff's suspicion of Catherine?

6. How does Catherine feel when she gets home from the sheriff's office in Chapter 4? Why?

7. Who is the killer? What is his or her medical diagnosis and why does it lead to murder?

8. What is the exchange between Percy Eakins and Catherine like at the sheriff's office as he takes her statement? Who does Percy turn out to be and how does this affect Catherine?

9. Why does Catherine become suspicious of everyone in town in Chapter 10? What does this tell us about her at this point in the novel?

10. What do we learn about Catherin Linton in the first chapter and what do these descriptions tell us about her character?

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