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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. What happened to Tom Mascalco's fiance in Memphis?
(a) She was killed in a car accident.
(b) She dumped him.
(c) She moved out of the country.
(d) He broke off their engagement.

2. What is Catherine irritated that she forgot when she came out to the tenant shack?
(a) Her friend.
(b) Beer.
(c) A hairband.
(d) Bullets.

3. What does Tom reveal to Catherine that the sheriff's son is doing?
(a) Stealing cars.
(b) Writing newstories.
(c) Selling dope.
(d) Playing football.

4. Who is Sally Boone?
(a) Jerry Selforth's new nurse.
(b) Tom Mascalco's fiance.
(c) Martin Barnes' daughter.
(d) Catherine's best friend.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Catherine doing out at the tenant shack?

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

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

4. What conclusion did the coroner's jury come to?

5. Who did Leona leave all of her money and possessions to in her will?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Leila want to hide any evidence of her presence in Tom's house? What do she and Catherine do to accomplish this? Why does Catherine help and lie for her?

2. What does Catherine learn from Salton Sims about Leona Gaites? How is his revelation verified?

3. Why does Carl Perkins come to see Catherine at the Lowfield Gazette on Tuesday? What is notable about their conversation?

4. How does Catherine know that Tom is in trouble in Chapter 11?

5. From the descriptions in Chapter 1, describe where this novel is taking place.

6. Catherine receives a telephone call from Sally, Martin Barnes' daughter. She is calling to offer her condolences, but she also offers up some information about Martin. What is that information, and what does Catherine deduce as a result of the information?

7. 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?

8. What is the atmosphere at work like on Tuesday? When is the newspaper deadline and what mishaps occur to stress the workers of the paper?

9. What does Catherine's state of mind appear to be in the beginning of the novel?

10. Why does Catherine decide to solve the crime by herself and not go to the police or Randall for help first?

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