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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 does Catherine assume about the woman whose body she discovered because of the location?
(a) She was raped.
(b) She was dumb.
(c) She had been kidnapped.
(d) She was poor.

2. What is the dispatcher doing as Catherine enters the sheriff's office?
(a) Typing.
(b) Filing.
(c) Talking on the phone.
(d) Cleaning her desk.

3. Who does Catherine tell the sheriff she saw on her way out to the tenant shack?
(a) Carl Perkins.
(b) Martin Barnes.
(c) Tom Mascalco.
(d) Betty Eakins.

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

5. Why did Tom ask Catherine for a beer?
(a) Because he is an alcoholic.
(b) To show he had been at her house before.
(c) He wanted to go fishing.
(d) He wanted to offer it to Randall.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of Martin Barnes' daughter?

4. What is the name of Sally Boone's baby?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the exchange between Catherine and the sheriff like and how does Catherine feel about this?

3. What is the manner of Leona's death? Where does she die? Where does she ultimately end up and why does the sheriff think she was moved?

4. How did Catherine feel about Leona Gaites?

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

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

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

8. Why does Martin Barnes come to see Catherine at the Lowfield Gazette on Tuesday? What is notable about their conversation?

9. The reader is introduced to Tom Mascalco in the previous chapter but more is revealed about him in Chapter 6. Describe Tom Mascalco and his relationship with Catherine.

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

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