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

2. What item from her father's office does Catherine tell the sheriff she did not sell to Jerry Selforth?
(a) Medical books.
(b) Examination tools.
(c) Filing cabinets.
(d) A desk.

3. What is Catherine pestered by when she is out at the tenant shack?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Rats.
(c) Horseflies.
(d) Mosquitoes.

4. What did Catherine's grandfather call his cotton farm?
(a) The fields.
(b) The place.
(c) The country.
(d) The farm.

5. What is the name of the receptionist at the Lowfield Gazette?
(a) Leila.
(b) Claire.
(c) Sally.
(d) Mary Sue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who taught Catherine how to shoot?

2. Who comes to visit Catherine in Chapter 5?

3. What is the name of the "village idiot" of Lowfield?

4. What job did Catherine ask Leona if she had applied for?

5. Who are Catherine's neighbors?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

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

5. How does Randall explain his feelings to Catherine? What had he done to get her to notice him? How did he feel when she did not notice him?

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

7. What do we learn about Catherine's parents in Chapter 2 and under what circumstances is this information revealed?

8. What was the conversation between Catherine and the librarian, Mrs. Weilenman, when she came to the Gazette to drop off materials?

9. 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?

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

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